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Bonus March — Part 2
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November 25, 1932
MARCHES ON WASHINGTON AND DEMONSTRATIONS
SCHEDULED FOR TH OPHNING OF CONGRESS
Reports from Cincinnati deted November 21, 1932,
indicate that about 300 delegates were expected to arrive in
Cincinnati from Colums 2, 3, and 5, 2nd that about twenty
delegates from Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Middletown, Ohio,
would join the three hundred in Cincinnati. The organizers
wiJi encourage youths, negroes, women, and shop workers to
be delegutes. The Mayor of Vincennes, Indiana, refused
rejuests to provide food and shelter for the marchers.
Thes: reports further state that the children's move-
ington vas to have been led by youn Jevish
ed y Dalton of Boston, Massachusetts. young rad
amed Kenncth “iagner of Louisville, Kentucky, will probably
d a delegation of tuenty men to Washington for the opening
of Congress.
ment to Va
Regorts from St. Louis, Missouri, dated Novesber 21
state that the ror of Springfield, Illinois, received e form
letter fron the Nationul Hunger March Committe
D. Brovm, Chicago Secretary, stnting that 2poro
hunger merchers intended to arrive in Springfield on November 25
and depart on November 26 en route to Washington. The letter
adensnded that tae Mayor furnish them with dzing, gosoline,
and safe conduct through the city, to which a reoly wis made that
they woul be furnished with safe conduct, but that the other
demands could not be met.
indicate that St. Louis,
been cut A tin cups
structed to m-ke a house to house canvuss to secure alms
funds for the ‘ational Hunger Marchers.
The reports further e that a Mrs. Sophie Levine has
orgenized « connittee of three Imown as "The Food and Clothing
Committee", composed of herself, her husband, «nd one S. Manewitz.-
Individuals are directed to bring clothing and food to their pzr-
ticular units and from these units to the general Communist Party
Headauarters at, 1243 North Gerrison Avenue, St. Louis, where they
11 be ready for the Nationsl Hunger Marchers as soon as they
arrive.
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