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: @ “” sJOHM EDGAR HOOVES . U.S. Bureav uf divestigation Depariurcut of Yustice Washington, D. €. November 22, 1932. MEMCRANDUL FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, There is transmitted the following data received fron this Burezu's Philedelphia office relative to the so-called Children's larch expected to arrive at Washington on Thanksgiving Day. This is supplemental to memorandum of November 21, relative to the same subjecs. One Ernest Rymer, Secretary of tne Young Pioncers of fmerica, Philadelphia Branch, 219 South 5th. Street, cffords the folle.- ing information, He states that there are at present enroute to Vashing~ ton «bout 150 children frou the textile centers of Massachusetts, fr New York City, New Haven and Bridgeport, Comiccticut, from Pittsburgh and Philedelphia, Pennsylvania, and from Wilmington, Delaware. The delegations from other than Philadelphia anc Wilmington are supposed t: have already started for Washington in privately ovwmed cars, or transportation was cbtsinable, some of them probably coming by truci The children ere supposed to be accompanied by women nurses. The oc ren are especially picked from the various schools throughout the e section as examples of under-ncurished children. The parents are s unemployed and each seven of these children are alleged to represent 109 nourished children in their community. The first contingent fre: Jew Englend States it is said will pass through Philedelphia some ths Yiednesdey, November 23. They will proceed to Wilmington, Delaware, they ere to pick up some delegates at the headquarters there. They wil! then proceed on to tiashington where they are to be met by delegates et the headquarters of the Netional Hunger ilarch, 1311 G Street, betr an one and two o'clock on Thanksgiving Day. They expect to call at 2 White House to demand thet their parents be da by the Government end by oe their parents! bosses, to demand immedicte relief for the in the fora of $50.00 a month for the jobless parents an for each child, end to demend that the Federal Government set «4 money to establish Federal relief stations all over the country in ordc.: provide every unemployed worker's child with a quart of milk ds meal daily, free medical aid, carfare, school books, ete; to demenc + there be no discrimination between colored, foreign born and other children and.to demand the abolition of child lebor on the part of children under fourteen years of age. cont cee renee . A i 7