The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-27
1000 Demons trate
Against COuzens'
Amendment

NEW YORK.-About 1000 young
workers made up the core of the de-
monstration in lower Manhattan
Saturday against war and against
the CONSUMPTION of homeless youth
into military training camps through
the CouzenS' amendment. The meet
ing started in the rain at noon, with
speeches, and was continued with a
parade through Bowling Green, low
er Broadway and Wall Street. The
demonstration was called by the
Young Communist League and Com
muniSt Party, and was endorsed by
the Marine Workers Industrial Union
and Workers Ex-service Mems
League.
Banners proclaimed the demands:
81 a Day and Free Relief For IN
employed Youth" mo Discrinina-
ton Against Youth In Giving Out
Relief" AT the head of the demon
stration was a large banner: THE
Couzens' Amendment Proposes To
NIilitarize The Homeless-Demand
Instead All Military Funds For Re-
lief"
Five or Six Hundred marine work
erS were in the audience.
Behind the speakers stood the
Seamen's Relief Headquarters on the
waterfront-a headquarters at which
there is very little relief.
Meet In Rain
AS the rain turned colder, more
Seamen and longshoremen gathered.
Losowitz, of the Communist Party,
Herman of the Young Communist
League, Jackson, organizer OF the
Marine Workers Industrial Union
sam Brown, and Burke of the Ma
t1onal Students League, spoke against
the steps being taken to prepare the
merchant marine for warfare, and to
steer unemployed young workers in
to military training camps.
They told how the Manhattan
was being so fortified that it could
be turned into an auxiliary cruiser
within twenty-four hours notice, how
the appropriation just given by the
U. S. Senate to the Navy could be
distributed to give each of the un-
employed at the rate of SIS weekly.
Seamen were offered this proposal
to fight for instead of the DOG
House" on South Street, the Sea-
mems Relief, and the Jane Street
Mission.
at one o'clock the crowd was mar
Shalled into line, and, surrounded
by mounted policemen, started their
march. AS they turned down White
hall Street, past the Cunard and the
Hamburg American Line Building
the streets filled with seamen and
employees, and the clerks in the
shipping buildings gathered at the
windows.
Parade Through Wall Street
Up Broadway they shouted I'm
mediate Cash Relief" and Fight a.
gainst Imperiahst War;" The police
| escort grew. They were followed by a
little squadron Of mounted police
men. Sleet darkened the lettering of
| the banners. A woman looked I'D.
startled and attentive, from powder
ing her nose in front of Schrafft's.
TWO men listened earnestly to the
shouts Of Down with the Couzens'
Amendment" and started to follow
the marcherS. Something thrown at
marcher struck a lady dressed in
the new shade of blue named for the
President-elect's family.
Seamen Fan In Line
In Wall Street, runners and clerks
stopped to watch. And as the parade
turned back to the waterfront, it was
noticeably heightened by the men
who had joined.
The seamen and marine workers
must be rallied with the industrial
workers against unemployment and
militarism. Thousands of men in the
merchant marine have been thrown
out Of work. Lately, the Merchant
Marine has promised them jobs on
coast-to-coast transports. Jobs that
will pay them a cent monthOO as
jackson told them Saturday. This
meeting has shown that these sea-
men can be reached and organized.