The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29
Students March On
White House in Big
Anti Protest
Roosevelt, Pushing
War Plans, Refuses
To See Committee

WASHINGTON, Dec. %. - Three
hundred and fifty students from col
legeS. throughout the country repre-
Senting united front Of the National
Student League and the League for
Industrial Democracy, marched in a
militant demonstration through the
streets here this afternoon to the
White House in protest against the
n. o. r. G. and against the whole
program of nlilitarizing the youth.
A delegation of five, Joseph Cohen
Of the National Student League,
Maurice Gates Of the FT.SL. of How
ard University, Sol Becher of the
N.SL., j. P Lash and A. Hamilton
of the LID, representing the stu
dent section of the American League
Against War and Fascism, went into
the White House to present the petit
lions signed by 5000 students calling
for the abolition of the r. 0. T. c.
and demanding that the funds spent
for student military preparation be
used for relief Of teachers and
students.
Roosevelt refused to see the delega-
ton declaring he was busy prepar-
ing his address to Congress" Col.
Louis M. Howe, the Presidents sec
rotary listened to their demands, but
refused to comment, stating, mo one
in the administration had mentioned
any opinion about this matter"
outside, the students kept shouting
slogans of Down with the r. o.
T. C.i" and Negro and white, Unite
Against Warl" while so police at
tempted to quell the demonstrators.
Defying the ruling of the police that
no meeting was to be held, several
speakers. including Gladys Stoner,
Negro student, Joe Starobin and Joe
Cohen of the N.SL. and M. Sweet
land and w. Gonlberg of the LID,
stood up on the back of a car and
scored the military preparations Of
the government. When the police
attempted to interrupt Cohen who
reported for the delegation, the stu
dents forced the police to retreat.
The demonstration was q part OF
the National Student Leagues third
annual convention at Howard uni
yersity, the largest Negro college in
the country At one of the sessions
last night Richard B. Moore, execu-
tive secretary of the League of
Struggle for N e g 70 Rights, Don
Henderson of the American League
Against War and FaScism and Dean
Kelly Miller of Howard, Negro re-
fornist, participated in q symposium
on the lynch wave and the terror
against Negroes.
In crowded auditorium Of 500
Negro and white students, Moore
Launched a scathing attack on the
Negro reformists who attempt to ship
the responsibility of the lynch terror
on to the shoulders of the white
workers. He scored the statements
made by Dean Miller that the
Southern white gentlemen and Off
Gals werc the protectors Of the
Negro people
4efhe lynch gangs are organized
precisely by these landlords and
officials" Moore declared. ''The
nine Scottsboro boys are alive to-
day only because the proIetariat,
Negro and white, fought TO save
them. We must meet the lyuchers
with the only argument they un-
nnderstand-open mass resistance"
The Negro students of Howard,
most of whom had never heard the
revolutionary position on the Negro
question, greeted the cali OF Moore
for militant mass action with enthu-
siastic applause.
After the symposium the students,
Negro and white, attended a dance
at the local Masonic Hall, where
friendship was cemented on an equal
social basis.
Minor Calls for United Fight ON War
At the opening session this morn
ing Robert Minor, speaking in the
name of the Communist Party, called
for the unity of the students and
workers in their fight against war
and against the N.R-A. slave codes.
Len Patterson, Negro leader of the
Young Communist League. gave the
Leagues position on the Negro ques-
ton, and urged the white students to
take the initial step in the fight for
full social and political quality of
Negro and white.