The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-16
The Fighting
Vets
BY H. E. BRIGGS
THIS WEEKS HONOR ROLL

AhlS WEGAo hOlNOh NULL
WE turn over our space this week tC
w Comrade Walls. His sincerity anc
devotion as recorded in a letter from
Joseph Gardner, Negro veteran anc
secretary of Post No. Workers Elk.
Servicemen's League, Chicago, de.
serves the homage of every worker
in the United States.
Comrade Walls, member of tht
Communist Party and the W. E. S. L
gave his Life for the Party, the vet
Grams and the working masses, Negro
and white. Being a Communist hc
knew the Importance OF the strug-
gle for better conditions. AS vet
eran he Joined the w. E. S. L. realiz-
ing that it is the only veterans organ
iZation which carries on the eX-serv-
icemen's fight for the Bonus (bacE
paw compensation, pensions, hospi-
talization and RELIEF. And that il
does this in conjunction with the
rank and file of other veteran ano
working class organizations. 1t does
not consider the veterans problems as
a separate and distinct issue. He die
his work in courageous manner
He has not died in vain. With
clenched, determined fists we shall
build greater Workers Ex-Service-
mems League. His final monument
shall be a WORKERS, FARMERS
and VETERANS REPUBLIC in Amer
lea.
To the National Once W. E. S. l.
Dear Comrades:
Comrade Walls, the treasurer Of
Pest No. Workers Ex-Servicemen':
League, died on the 4th Of November
at the County Hospital. Before hi,
death he asked the comrades to be
sure that in his funeral there would
be no flowers. If comrades ane
friends had money to spend fol
flowers to turn this money over t.
the w. z. S. l.. or the Scottsborc
Boys. He also requested that there
would be no preachers allowed tt
say a word at his funeral. He re-
quested that the workers take care
of his body. He asked that in hi'
coffin would be placed the red flag
with the hammer and sickle inside
the coffin.
Comrade Wells was member Of
the Communist Party. In the first
Bonus March, Comrade Walls went
out in his car collecting food ant
money to support the bonus march
ers. Many times he felt sick anc
had to be carried home, yet he never
stopped fighting with the workers
against the rotten conditions.
Post No. 4 has lost one of its mosi
militant fighters. One who above al
held the Communist Party and tht
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League a.
a part Of him. He realized that III
would not live long If he continued
his activity in the revolutionary or
ganizations. Doctors had warned hin
to stay at home and be quiet and no.
worry about conditions. But Com.
rade Walls answer was that he coulc
not rest since he had already seer
q new and better world being bull
in the Soviet Union, led by the Com,
munist Party. A world where thert
would be no Scottsboro frame-ups
unemployment, Jim Crowisln ant
starvation. A country where ther,
would be no bonus marches nor cut
ting off Of disabled veterans com
pensation. He knew that his plac,
was with the workers in the strug,
giles against the capitalist class unit
the victory was won, but death came
Though he will not be with us in the
many battles that are before us, LEI
the spirit of Comrade Walls encour.
age us to organize the ex-servicemer
in the fight for the restoration of ou
compensation and the rest of the
bonus. We must build the Workers
Ex-SerVicemen's League. We mus
consolidate our ranks with the rest o.
the workers for the final victory.
Our post shall no longer be known
as Post No. 4, but as the Fred Wall;
Post. We make an appeal to all ex.
servicemen to join the Workers Ex-
Servicemen's League, 1910 Langley
Ave, Chicago, Ill.
Joseph Gardner.
DISABILITY AND