The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07
SUPPORT the Veterans!
t(sTATFMENT OF CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF
THE COMMUNIST PARTY, U. S. A.

((sTATEMENT OF CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF
THE COMMUNIST PARTY, U. 5. A.
THE rank and file of the ex-servicemen
are marching again, From every corner
of the country, at the call of the Veterans
National Rank and File Committee, they
are again heading for Washington for the
mass convention that begins on May 10.
These vets, the men who faced death and
disease on the battlefields of imperialst war, so
that the profits and investments of the Wall Street
bankers could be protected, these men are joining
hands with the whole toillng population of the
country in the fight against the Wall Street pro-
gram of hunger, joblessness, and starvation.
The May 10 mass convention of the vets will
unite on the following three point program:
/. Immediate cash payment Of their back
pay, n1isnamed the Bonus"
?. The immediate repeal of the Economy
Act"
;. Immediate remedial relief for the unem-
ployed and the farmers.
That the veterans are firmly cementing their
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entire working-class population is made clear by
the fact that in ever greater numbers they are
procaining their support Of the fight for the Work
ers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill H.
R. 1898.
The fight of the vets for their three-point pro-
gram is an integral part Of the fight of the whole
working class of all who feel the heel Of the domi-
nation of the Wall Street finance capitalist plum
derers.
That is why the Communist Party, which
leads the fight Of the masses against the yoke of
Wall Street calls upon all its members supporters
In all its mass organizations to give their i'm
mediate unqualified and active support to the
veterans and their convention in Washington on
May 10.
For an immediate task, the Communist Party
urges that resolutions be sent from all organiza-
tions to Congress and the President demanding
support for the veterans and their threepoint
demands, and demanding further that the vets
be provided by the Government with ways and
means to carry on the mass convention at Wash
ington.
ROOSEVELT has shown that his Wall Street pro-
gram called the New Deal" tramples on the
needs of the veterans even more ruthlessy than
Hoover, who sent the Glassford police and army
against Jne starving vets, numbering HuShd anu
Carlson Roosevelt gives billions to the Wall Street
bankers, but turns his back on the veterans.
It was only the mass anger of the rank and file
vets that forced Congress to override Roosevelts
veto But even with these concessions forced from
Roosevelt the vets are still being robbed of more
than 1925 100000 in compensation and allowances.
And every day the compound interest charged by
the Government wipes out more and more of the
unpaid balance of the vets back pay.
The rank and file Of the veterans are up in
volt against the reactionary leaders, the American
Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Dis
abled American Veterans. The rank and file vets
in these organizations uniting with the Workers
Elk -Servcemens League in the fight against the
whole Wall Street New Deal" not only as it hits
the veterans but as it affects the whole working
population of the country.
On May Day, thousands of vets marched shoulder
to shoulder with the working class. They clasped
hands with the working class in the fight against
hunger against starvation, against and fascism
The fight Of the veterans is our fight The Cen
trsl Committee of the Communist Party urges aid
and solidarity with the ex-servicemen