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UC -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, etc., are being asked to send representatives to the hearing in Washington. 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 plans to support and take care of the children's delegations to Weshington on November 24, and the Hunger March to Washington on December 5. Statements in the Daily Worker, the central organ of the Communist Party of the United States of America {section of tiie 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. Tuey speak of delegates to be elected at “hunger heerings" throughout the eastern states, but do sot indicate the particular locelities from which the children will come. No definite information has as yet been secured in- dicating the cities from which children’s delegations will come. A report from Baltimore, Maryland, the reliability P whi is open to question, states that about seveny-five children wovlé cone from New York, twenty from Baltimore, an@ some from Cumberlend. A rehearsal or local cemonstration in Baltimore was to have been neld November 19, One Joan Hardy is said to be preparing to come. She is said to be aa eighteen or trenty~year-old woman vho was previously arrested in Washington during a demonstration. Reports have been received from Chicago to the effect that the children's delegations will probably come from Nex York City, Baltimore, anc Philadelshis. Translations of articles in Novy Mir, a Russian language Communist publication, do not indicate details as to the number of children or the starting points.