The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-17

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SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, |
Nov. 16.-'From the Pacific
to the Atlantic, across the
continent to demand $50 fed
eraI winter relief in addition to
local relief and to demand I'M
employment insurance, go the
ten San Francisco delegates
who started off Column 2 of the Ma
tional Hunger march, yesterday.
Right on the waterfront, hundreds |
of Frisco workers and jobless work
ers gathered to cheer them on their /
way. Among the delegates were four |
Marine workers. In addition to the
ten from San Francisco and nearby |
towns. there wee two unemployed
agricultural laborers from the great
central valley CT California. They
are part of the swsrp1s of "miore-
tory workers" who follow the fruit
and grain harvests north and south,
hunting a few days work in each
place. and moving on to the next
lob. With the farmers ruined also
in this depression, most Of the agri-
cultural workers don't find any lob.
no matter how hard they look. They
wander on, in starving groups, many
with their wives and children. These
two delegates will voice the demands
of tens of thousands of such laborerS.
1000 Meet In Oakland.
When the San Francisco delegation
crossed the bay to Oakland, it met
thousand more workers assembled
there, to vote endorsement of their
demands, and to add four more dele
gates to the march.
At seven p. m. last night the dele
cation was reaching it's first over
night stop, in Sacramento, the state
capital. Sacramento has seen its
militant city hunger marches this
year and last year, and many Of the
veterans of these fights, along with
new recruits, were reported assemb-
ling to greet the marchers of Column
2.
Captain of the Frisco delegation is
Charles Davis.
Tonight the Column will stop over
in Reno Nevada
From Southern California.
YUMA, Ariz.. Nov. 16. - Twenty
Southern California hunger march
delegates swung out onto the road
yesterday from San Diego. Califor-
MIA. starting Column 3 of the Ne
tional Hunger March.
From the "land of orange groveE
and hunger, from one of the places
of the worst police attacks on work
ers, these men go. with the endorse
ment of the masses here, to place
demands for relief and insurance be-
fore congress, in the marble halls of
Washington.
The delegation has assembled the
day before in Los Angeles, and was
sent off on its way by 300 workers
gathered in Woodbine Hall.
The delegates go we'll equipped
with large amount of food and
clothing, and Southern California
workers raised $50 in cash for inn
mediate expenses, gas, oil for the
trucks, etc.
Camp In Desert,
The spirit of the delegation re-
manned high, although car trouble
developed on the way, and the whole
delegation had to camp over last
night on the desert west of Yuma.
Everything was fixed up during the
night and this morning, and the
march was resumed at II this fore
noon.
In the Southern California delega-
ton is one woman. The San Diego
contingent, which joined the march
there, numbers six. G. A. Rowell is
captain of the march of Column 3,
so far. Tonight the Column expects
to reach Phoenix, Ariz.
Column of the National Hunger
March, which started Monday night
from Seattle, was last reported leav-
ing Spokane, Wash, and headed for
Missoula, Mont.
Column / will march through the
big cities OF the North West and
along the shore of the Great Lakes
to Chicago, then go through Pitts
burgh, picking up Column 4 from
Sioux City in Pittsburgh, and join
ing with Columns and at Cum
berland, and thence on to Washing
ton. Column 2 and meet and merge
at Kansas City. Two Columns will
start soon for Washington from the
North, one from Buffalo and one
from Boston Two more columns
will start from the South, one from