The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22

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Groups Will Parade to
City Hall Despite
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NEW YORK.-Th victims of
Mayor LaGuardia's hunger relief
program will demonstrate in thous-
ands at Union Square today at 10
o'clock, the United Action Commit
tee on Work, Relief and Unemploy-
ment declared yesterday.
The mass resentment caused by
Mayor LaGuardia's attempt to pre-
vent this demonstration will result
in further swelling the ranks of the
demonstrators, the committee said.
The United Action Committee
in charge of the demonstration, will
insist upon the right Of the workers
to march through the streets and
present the workers demands to
Mayor LaGuardia at City Hall,
backed by the mass demonstration
of thousands.
The workers assembled in the
Square will be asked to declare
whether they will permit LaGuardia
to deny them the use of the streets.
In a statement to Mayor La
Guardia yesterday the United Ac-
ton Committee declared that it will
not submit to the police ruling pro-
hibiting the mass march to City
Hall today and that the workers
will be asked to go through with the
parade as scheduled.
The workers will march to City
Hall where an elected delegation
will present to Mayor LaGuardia
their demands for immediate APP
preparations for Winter relief and
union wages and conditions on all
relief jobs. In addition to the de-
mand for increased cash relief and
endorsement of the Workers I'm
employment Insurance Bill, the de-
msnds call for the scrapping of the
Bankers Agreement, an end to the
payments to the bankers, and tax
alton on large incomes, inheri-
tances, corporations and utilities to
provide unemployment relief funds.
The committee statement, in part,
said:
THE United Action Conference
on Work, Relief and Unemployment
filed application ten days ago for
permit to march to City Hall. No
reply was received from the police
department until forty-EiX hours
before the march. Now that all
preparations are made, the police
commissioner fatty refuses to issue
the permit"
Through Workers Sections
To the police departments reply
that the parade would interfere
with business" the committee cited
the numerous parades for visiting
diplomats, to Salvation Army Gen
eral" Evangeline Booth, the NRA
parade, ETC.
Following the May Day demon
stration," the committee stated, "the
police commissioner announced that
henceforth all parades would be di-
verted from the business districts to
the residential sections. The pro-
posed route for today's march is
through workers neighborhoods."
The United Action Committee,
citing the attempts by former Po-
lice Commissioner Grover Whalen
to stop the March 6, 1880, and the
May Day, 1880, marches, called upon
all workers to assemble in the
streets facing Union Square at 10
am. today, as arranged by the
United Action Committee and the
participating organizations. The
Committee called upon the workers
to maintain firm, disciplined ranks,
resist any police provocation, but to
express their determination to
march
Urge Protests to Mayor
All organizations were urged by
the United Action Committee to
wire immediate protests to LaGuar-
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to the City Hall demanding the I'M
qualified right of the New York
unemployed to march against the
starvation plans of the City, State
and Federal administration.
This refusal to permit a march
by any route between Union Square
and City Hall was reaffirmed late
Thursday night after q meeting be-
tween representatives of the Com
mittee and LaGuardia's secretary,
Major Durham,
There is not another city in the
world that does as much for the
jobless as New York" Durham said.
There is no reason for anyone 60
ing hungry; he can apply at the
Municipal Lodging House" With
out taking up with LaGuardia the
issues involved at the meeting, Dun
ham replied to the questioning of
the committee you have the May
or's answer, there will be no par
ade Saturday"