The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-01

bOOed every reference thru the
some Republican henchman on
the platform inside called for
three cheers for Hoover, the
crowd responded with three
booes. On 49th st. and 50th
st. around the Garden were
$4,000 to 10000 more. many of whom
joined in the demonstration against
Hoover.
AS Hoover was leaving the Garden
police che cged group of demon
strating workers and arrested six.
Attempts of the Democrats to cash
in on the resentment against the
Hoover Stagger system, the gifts of
hundreds of millions of dollars to
banks and railroads while the jobless
starve, met with just as hearty jeer-
ing. A big picture of Roosevelt was
carried through the crowd, and the
crowd booed it.
When Hoover came through the
street blocked off by the police, a
tremendous shout went up: where's
the chicken in every pot?" Great
jeers greeted the President as he APP
preached the Garden. After that the
mass of workers, thousands of them,
began to parade around the Garden
with placards carrying the slogans
that had been shouted.
Soon after the arrival Of Hoover
speakers of the Communist Party
mounted makeshift platforms in front
OF the Garden and addressed the
crowd.
Try to Clear Streets.
At 8:45 lines of mounted police
pushed into the crowd and lines of
foot police followed, driving a wedge
and forcing the masses up and down
Eighth Ave, away from the door, to
let the invited Republican ward
bosses and the Park Ave. residents,
in their Rolls Royces and Pierce Ar
rows, in to the door. The worker
masses resisted. Again and again
groups of them broke through the
police lines and rushed back to the
Garden entrance to shout their de-
nunciation of Hoover and capitalism.
The roars grew louder: eve want
unemployment insurance." mo war
on the Soviet UnionP' "All war funds
for the jobless!" mo stagger pIan!''
I'VE want $50 winter relief" etc.
~We Want Foster!"
Police broke into the crowd and
pulled out worker who was shout
ing: I'VE want Foster" and as
they rushed him away, the crowd
took up the shout: I'VE want Eos
teri" in a mighty chorus.
Hoover had sneaked into town by
route kept secret until the last, but
lined with police and with armored
motorcycles thick around Hoover's
car. A thousand Tammany police
were especially picked to defend the
Republican President from "any
heckling or insults"
Before pm. there were crowds
OF 10000 to 10000 massed all about
the Garden. Forty-ninth st. to
Eighth Ave. was black with people
They extended up Eighth Ave. to
50th ST., and down 50th the full length
of the building.
Hoover On Defensive
Hoover, speaking inside, found ii
necessary to try and defend the
capitalist system itself. He ascribed
quantity enough, the revolutionary de-
sire to change the system to the Demo-
Gratis, but made his appeal to every
sentimental tradition for "the whole
system which has been builded up by
$50 years of the toll of our fathers. "
He said:
Il realize that in this time of dis
tress many of our people are asking
whether our social and economic sys-
tenn is capable Of that great primary
function of providing security and
comfort of life to all of the firesides
of our 25,000,000 homes in America,
whether our social system provides
for the fundamental development and
progress of our people, whether our
form of government is capable of
Oii6liidtlilS ana ouSudiiilliS Ilidt ScCu-
rity and progress
There were thousands of people
outside demonstrating their opinion
that the capitalist form of govern
ment would not do any of these
things, and that what is needed is a
Workers and Farmers Government.
But Hoover continued, with the
same old excuses he has made before
in the campaign: THE crisis is only
temporary" "a passing shock" "com-
ing from abroad" etc, in spite of the
fact that America is the hardest hit
of all the capitalist countries, and
the Soviet Union has no unemnl9y-
nient at all .....,----z,s.,
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