The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-06

They marched from Co
to Madison Ave-, north on Ma
corner of Madison and 65th st.
They were met there by Tam
many police, blocking til e
whole street and preventing
their entrance to the block
where Roosevelt lives and was then
entertaining the congressman and
plotting wage cuts and relief cuts.
Circle Roosevelt House
The demonstration swung north
on Madison, and turned west on 66th
Street, turned south again on Park
Ave, and approached Roosevelt's
block from the other side, never more
than a block from the house where
the congressman were comforting
with him. Their shouted slogans
and the rousing strains of workers
songs could be heard all over that
fashionable part OF town.
Police Attack
Then the Tammany tiger pounced
defending profits against the de-
mandS Of the jobless. The process
sion was attacked by scores of burly
police before it got to the corner of
! 65th ST. and Park Ave. A wild scram-
bic resulted. the jobless fighting to
bring their demands right to Roose-
velt's door step.
! Finally the workers were driven
back to 66th st. and along it, still
fighting and marched in body back
to Columbus Circle. That was the
state of affairs as this was written
at 9 pm last night
First Demonstration
Roosevelt refused to see the dele
cation sent him by the demonstra-
tors-police we're sent to club them
instead.
Just before the main procession
got under way. scores of unemployed
streamed across from Central Park
and stood in shouting crowd across
65th st. from Roosevelt's house.
Roosevelt drove up in kind of
little procession of his own, sirens Of
the autos shrieking, but not able to
drown out the yell of the jobless
across the street: Roosevelt, what
about relief" what about the Hun
ger Marchers' Demards!" Eve want
Unemployment insurance."
Police attacked this smaller crowd
but very shortly afterward the Col
umbus Circle demonstrators were in
sight.
Bread Line,
The 5000 demonstrators had an OBJ
ject lesson in capitalist starvation
while they met. Right alongside of
them was bread line of 500 or more
destitute and homeless workers. The
line was maintained by the New York
Journal as one of its advertising
stunts.
The demonstration heard Sam
Weissman open the meeting at 7:30
and tell of the National Hunger
Hunger March on which he was a
delegate, and the placing of the de-
mands before congress. He told of
congress failure so far to take up
those demands for consideration, and
proposed the election of committee
from the demonstration to march on
Roosevelt's conference with those very
same congressional henchmen of his,
and demand they take up in congress
the demands of the Hunger March
ers
Enthusiastic shouts of approval
greeted the suggestion.
There followed speeches by l. AM
ter, secretary Of the National Com
mi.S,e of the Unemployed Councils;
and by Herbert Benjamin, its nation
al organizer.
Roosevelt and Hoover have the
same program. starvation for the
workers." shouted Amter, pointing to
the bread line.
Flight in every locality for relief
and no evictions, and while Mr. Pri-
vate Citizen Roosevelt is couferring
with his lieutenants, we will demand
from them that they take up our pro-
posals nationally instead of trying to
put over sales tax on the workers.
| Amter added.
Organize!
Rally to the Unemployed Coun-
ellis" was central point in Ben
jamin's speech. and he also told of
the starvation here
Negro and white, unite and fight
for the workers way out of the chisis,
for food, for shelter, for clothing this
winter" urged oscar Buchanan, Ne
gro speaker. There were many Ne
gro workers in the crowd.
The committee was elected with
one vast shout of approval. and was
on its way a few minutes later. Its
members we're: Benjamin, Charles
Klein, Harrison Dalvish, Thomas Pc
taiso and Celia Nadi, Both Negro
and white we're on IT,