Evening star., 1937-08-22
j0bLESS SET UP
{. !. POTOMAC CAMP
More Contingents Expected
Today-PIan to Stage
Parade Tuesday.

C8hpeo quietly A1OllS tHe FOtOHldC IdSt
night, awaiting triple reinforcements
expected today in their campaign to
impress the country with the necessity
for w. p A. expansion rather than
curtailment.
Leaders Of the lob march" and
police were agreed that the army will
reach a peak enrolment of about
3,50O tonight, after the arrival of
contingents now en- route.
When rain appeared imminent
around midnight, several hundred Of
those who were unable to find shelter
In tents set up in the park marched
to the Washington Auditorium, where
they were allowed to spend the night.
A persistent rumor that the Demon
strators are planning q huge sit
down" demonstration tomorrow. either
at W. p A. headquarters or about
the White House. was denied last night
by leaders of the army.
The jobless men obtained a permit
from Metropolitan and park police
yesterday for parade to get under
way at II am. Tuesday. The route
OF the march has not been settled as
yet, although it probably will lie along
Constitution avenue.
Claims Partial Victory.
David lasscer, president OF the
Workers Alliance. which is sponsor
ing the march, declared the dem
onStrators won at least partial VIC
tory yesterday when W. P. A. Ad-
ministrator Harry L. Hopkins sent
letter to the Senate saying Job rolls
would not be reduced further before
the end Of next Winter except for
cause"
Through an arrangement with the
National Capital Parks Office, the
demonstrators yesterday shifted their
camping site from the Monument
Grounds to an unused golf course in
West Potomac Park where sanitary
facilities were made available.
This move followed q conference
between leaders of the demonstration,
parks officials and District and Fed
eral health officers The move was
prompted by unsanitary conditions and
the possibility of an epidemic on the
Monument grounds.
The marchers were given a permit
to camp in the park until Wednesday.
LASER, however. said the decision as
to whether the camp would be evacu-
eted at that time remains with the
marcherS themselves,
Lasscer told reporters last night
that Senator Schwellenbach, Demo-
crat of Washington, co-author of
the Schwelenbach- Allen resolution
providing that no person be taken off
the relief rolls unless he has private
employment, had agreed to address
. mass meeting Of demonstrators to-
morrow night on the Monument
Grounds
In q letter to Senator Schwellen-
bach yesterday. Hopkins said that no
more dismissals would be made ''ex-
cept for cause" and that persons quit
ting relief rolls for temporary out
side jobs would be furloughed and
guaranteed einstatement lasscer
and his group are demanding that
the w. P. A. reinstate those already
cut from the rolls, in addition to
stopping lay-offs.
While details Of the parade Tuesday
were not announced, 1t was thought
the marchers would move along Con-
stitution avenue to the Capitol
Grounds.
Lasscer said the parade would be
held although Congress has adjourned.
Guards Strengthened.
Police guards were strengthened at
the Capital yesterday when about IS
demonstrators went there to demand
in vain that the Allen
resolution be passed before adjourn
ment.
In Police Court yesterday. seven
marchers were convicted and fined IS
each by Judge Edward M. Curran fol-
lowing their arrest Friday for distribut-
ing handbills in front O; the Labor
Department.
Those fined were Martha Taylor, ~;
Mary Bran, 27; Ruth Mason, 80; Ann
Horwitz, "a; Elsie ONeal. 80; Pas
quella Piscitilli, a, and Jack Brown,
A.
Attorney Sol NJ Alpher of the Ameri-
can Civil Liberties League represented
the marchers and the case was prose-
cuted by Oliver Gasch of the corpora
ton counsels ONCE.
On the whole, the demonstrators
have proved orderly.
They have set up their own camp
system Of discipline. While large extra
details OF police will be on hand for
the parade. no disorder is expected.
Extra police reserves have been on
duty in downtown precincts as a pre-
cautionary measure while the marchers
were in the city, however.
Workers in Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, August 81 (P-
One hundred automobiles and nearly .
score of trucks and chartered buses
brought 1000 Works Progress Admins
tration workers to Philadelphia tonight
in their march on Washington.
The marchers, from New England,
New York. New Jersey and North
eastern Pennsylvania. were joined in
Reyburn Plaza by another contingent
formed in Philadelphia and expected
to reach Washington tomorrow
Some of the trucks from New Eng
land bore replicas of the Colonial
rattlesnake flag with the printed warn
Ing, Don't tread on me"
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