The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-05


Boston police brutally attacked
several hundred workers marching
from the demonstration to the I'M
employed headquarters ON Wash
ington ST. Five workers are known
to have been arrested and amongst
them was Keith, District Organizer
Of the Y. G. L., who was brutaIiy
beaten up.
Several workers had their faces
cut open by the police.
Three thousand demonstrated In
cold, nasty weather on the Com
mon, where Daniels of the Unen-
ployed Council, Harry Canter, Lor"
retta Starr, Alice Averett, a Negro
woman and Keith spoke, exposing
Governor Ely amidst the enthusi-
asm Of the workers, who cheered
wildly.
The me ting unanimously
adopted the Workers Unemploy-
nent Insurance Bill. The demon
stration was preceded by a march
from Blackstone Park with one
hundred marchers with dozens Of
placards amidst cheers Of the by
standars.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. Alive
thousand workers took part in thu
demonstration today at Public Square
in spite Of a terrific snowstorm.
The march proceeded to city hall
There we're no arrests.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Feb. 4. -
More than 800 workers demon
strated today at an open air meet
ing In the industrial district of
Knoxville, and listened to the speech
of George Hicks, a textile worker.
and chairman of the local Unem-
pIoyed Council Committee, besides
three other local speakers and Joe
Weber, National Miners Union or
ganizer.
The meeting endorsed the program
of the Unemployed Committee uman
imously. The program is as follows
Cash payment on all city work; M
check-off from pay for city relic
fund; 40 cents an hour on all relic
Jobs; full weeks work on all relic
Jobs; no eWctions of unemployed
workers; free light, water, gas ant
coal to unemployed workers; cash re
lief for every unemployed worker; M
discrimination against Negroes IL
distribution of relief or jobs; gov
eminent unemployment insurance a
full wages without cost to thu
workers.
Many copies of the Hunger Marcel
Pictorial were sold at the meeting.
One hanger-on of the city admin
istration spoke and said, 1--WE don
want these sobs from Bell County II
Knoxville" He then ran to the po
lice car filled with officials annie
jeers from the crowd.
The Knoxville News Sentinel,
Scripps- McRae sheet leading a
campaign Of provocation against
the Unemployed Council yesterday
evening carried story headed,
evidence Looms over city as new
unemployed organization is formed.
The Unemployed Council issued
statement branding such stories a
ian attempt to inflame opinion
against the Council and lay the basi
for an attempt by the police to smash
the developing movement of the un
employed of Knoxville"
The News Sentinel has an editoria
today ridiculing the demands of TIN
unemployed. Sam Scandlyn OF tn
Central Labor Council, who presented
a petition for cash payment to tn
unemployed to the city council
week ago, today has a statement II
the press dissociating himself witt
the program of the organized unem
ployed and deploring the fact tina
the refusal OF the city to make casf
payments made possible Communist
gain follows among the unemployed
as they have now done"
The Communist Party has issued
leaflet which has been widely dis
6ibuted In Knoxville end the strik'
areas.