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Sor tae -2- country on the same date. Doctors and nurses, and also children will testify at these open hearings. The "Hoover Committees "for Child Welfare, Child Labor, ete., are being asked to send representatives to the hearing in Washingten. They will also be urged to endorse the National Hunger March to Congress on December 5, in which children also are to participate. It is further reported that an effort is being made to hold a "United Front" conference in as many towns as possible to make olans to support and take care of the children's delegations to Washington on November 24, and the Hunger March to Washington on December 5. Statements in the Daily Worker, the central organ of the Communict Party of the United States of America (section of the Communist Internationale) are general in character and follow the lines of the "call" issued by the National Committee of the Unemployed Councils, the Young Pioneers, and the Workers International Relief. They speak of delegates to be elected at “hunger hesrings" throughout tine éastern states, but do not indicate the particular localities from which the children will cone. No definite information has as yet been secured in~ diecating the cities from which children’s delegations will comes A report from Baltimore, Maryland, the reliability of which is open to question, states thet about seveny-five children woulé come from New York, twenty from Ealtimore, and some from Cumberlend. A rehearsal or local cenmonstration in Baltimore was to have been 1:e1d November 19. Qne Joan Hardy is said to be preparing to come. She is said to be al elgnieen or trenty-year-old woman who was voreviously arrested in Washington during a demonstration. Reports have been received from Chicago to the effect that the children's delegations will probably come from New York City, Baltimore, anc Philadelohis. Translations of articles in Novy Mir, a Russian language Communist publication, da not indicate details as to the number of children or the starting points. ;