Evening star., 1933-12-28
STUDENTS PARADE,
PROTESTING R.O.T.C.
March to White House, Where
Committee Waits Upon
Col. Howe.

Bearing placards protesting against
the Reserve Officers Training Corps and
other militariSt organizations, more
than 800 members Of the National
Student League marched on the White
House early this afternoon. Five repre-
sentativeS of the paraders took petit
tions from members Of their organiZa-
ton to Col. Louis McHenry Howe, presi-
Dental secretary, demanding abolition
of the r. o. T. c., and asking that
the funds now used for maintaining
that unit of the national defense be
used as a Federal aid to education.
The delegation was headed by Joseph
Lash and Joseph Cohen, Brooklyn.
Marchers Chant Protests.
As they marched down the street
toward the White House the marchers
chanted in unison such yells as: Fight
against imperialiSt war" Down with
r, o. T. c." "All war funds for un-
employment"
Some of the placards borne by the
marcherS read: students protest war
appropriations and educational re-
trenchments," Drive the war machine
of the campus" Equal rights for
Negro students" "Oust r. o. T. c. from
all colleges"
While the Committee Of Five waited
upon Secretary Howe with the petltlon
the paraderS stood in a group along
West Executive avenue, just outside the
Presidents offices. chanting their yellS.
Speakers Score New Deal.
Previously the new deal was decried
as a dying gesture of an old order night
ing to maintain itself against the in
evitable birth Of "a new and splendid
world by speakers at the convention OF
the league at Rankin Memorial Chapel,
Howard University.
CLYDE johnson, former New York
student, said the league must arm itself
to fight against the pseudo prosperity
of the N r. A, A A. A and all other
alphabetically designated agencies
along with the workers who will be in
control OF the new world that Is even
now being born, he said.
we know there is no prosperity un-
der the N. R. A." johnson said. pointing
out that under 1t. as before. the Govern
rnent tolerateS the beating down OF
strikers" and that the chief accom-
plishment Of the agency Is that 1t has
brought about the concentration OF
industry under even more unified capt.
tahstic control-the control OF Wall
Street"
Job Is to Create New Order.
at is our Job, as thinking students,
30 go among the workers and see for
ourselves their conditions, and also to
help them to understand what the
N. r. A. and other capitalistic organi-
zationS are doing to us. Our job, fur
ther, is to participate In strikes, to
mingle with the workers on the picket
Ine-help them in their fight to create
the new order"
The Civilian Conservation Corps came
tn for its share Of criticism by the
By 0e dosa and and anso ehs
CT ( camps where they ore being
taught to prepare for a war for the
The American Federation OF Labor
never did promote q strike In the
Interests Of the workers" Johnson said.
~fhey are sent by the United States
Government to sell The workers out to
their bosses. We must make the work.
ers see that.
Old Order Is Broken.
Another speaker on todays program,
Robert Minor, Socialist candidate for
uldyOI "a I've" 4OIAS PdAlIco pclOIc blic
students a new world in process of
making; world not being shaped by
the older generation, but by the younger
generation-the students who are not
afraid to fight for their ideals, even
though the fight may mean jail and
death"
The old order is broken. The ruling
class, all over the world, Is trying to
save it with Fascism, Ku Klux Klan-
ism and N. R. A.-ism," which Is rush.
ing us to another and more terrible
world war. the speaker said.
But the working class is going to
shape the new order he told the group.
He said, I'VE are entering the most mag
nifcent period of human history IL
you love action and fighting; a period
when men no longer exist as slaves and
masters; time when Socialism dawns
upon the world; when war will be
looked back upon as the most savage
bestiality, and when this country ceases
70 exist as two separate racial classes,
rs well as many social and economic
strata"
The National Student League, he told
tts members, is facing in the right di-
rection TO be in position to take its
rtghtful place in the new order Of
things.
Mlnor just returned from Alabama,
where he looked over the Scottsboro
situation. He told the N S. L. mem
bers that the colored race, making up
l2,0OO,00O Of the country'S population,
is being placed in the position of nitro
slycerin, compressed" and that there
must be some way of escape.
Speakers Views Differ.
Divergent views of two colored speak,
Gs on the subject of lynching were
given last night in a symposium, sched-
uled for the preceding night, but post
poned.
One speaker, Dean Kelly Miller, con-
eended that the development of a
lynching evil was necessary, rather than
legislation against it. THE more laws we
make" he said, "the more We break"
He upheld President Roosevelt'S stand
as most feasible" in that he has en-
deavored to create sentiment that
lynching Is murder. an offense against
human and divine law. With such SEN
timent, well developed legislation will
prove effective"
He said he believed the State govern
ments are better adapted to act in pre-
venting mob violence than the National
Government.
The other, Richard B. Moore, who