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. . a ge . JOHN EDGAR HOOVER ly DIRECTOR U.S. Bureva of Awoestigation Sagar Heparimest of Pustice f Washington, B.C. November 22, 1932. MEJORANDUM FOR ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL DODDS, There is transmitted the following deta received from this Bureau's Philedelphia office reletive to the so-called Children's March expected to arrive et Washington on Thanksgiving Day, This is supplemental to memorandum of November 21, relative to the same subject. One Ernest Rymer, Secretary of the Young Pioneers cf America, Philedelphia Branch, 219 South 5th. Street, affords the follci.- ing information. He states that there are et present enroute to Washir-- ton about 150 children from the textile centers of Massachusetts, froa New York City, New Haven and Bridgeport, Connecticut, from Pittsburgh and Philedelphie, Pennsylvaniz, and from Wilmington, Delaware. The delegations fro other than Philadelphia and Wilmington ere supposed to heve slreacy started for Washington in privately orned cars, or vhetcve: transportation was obtainsble, some of them probably cuming by truck. The chilaren ere supposed to be accompanied by women nurses. The child- Ten ere especiuily picked from the various schools throughout the easte.u section as examples of under-nourished children. The purents are suppc: edly unemployed end each seven of these children ere alleged to represent 10. under-nourished chilcren in their commmity. The first contingent fren the New Englend States it is said will pass through Philedelyvhie some tite vednescey, November 23. They will proceed to Wilmington, Delaware, whele they ere to pick up some delegates at the headcuarters there. They wil) then proceed on to Rashington where they ere to be met by delegates at the headquarters of the National Hunger March, 1311 G Street, between cue 6nd tio o'clock on Thanksgiving Day. They expect to call ut the Vhite House to demand that their parents be paid by the Government ana &, their parents! bosses, to demand immediate relief for the winter months aa in the form of $50.00 a month for the jobless parents and $10.00 additicial © for each child, and to demand that the Federsl Government set aside sufi cient to money to establish Federal relief gtations all over the country in order provide every unemployed worker's child with a quart of milk daily, « he-. meal daily, free medicel aid, carfere, school books, etc; to demand thar there be no discrimination between colored, foreign born and other chile -en and to demend the abolition ci chila labor on the part of chilcren under fourteen years of age, _