MARCH ON WASHINGTON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15594, 28 April 1914, Page 9

MARCH ON WASHINGTON.

AMERICAN UNEMPLOYED London-, April 18. A body of 200 unemployed have started to march from Massillon (Ohio) to Washington to bring the position of the workers before the President. 'ITie police are not going to interfere, provided the march remains orderly. The Industrial Workers of the World organisation announces that it will send detachments to join the procession at various points. Mr. Coxey is leaning the march in a phaeton, drawn by a mule, the animal bearing tho inscription "Jacob's Ass." The Coxey mentioned is presumably the same man who, in April, 1894, raised in Ohio what was known as Coxoy's army, a body of about 7000 out-of-works, many of them holxjes and wouldn't-works, anil started to march to Washington to demand legislation for work and better wages. The processionists came into conflict with the railway authorities in Nebraska, and seized and successfully held trains in Montana and Indiana. ' They travelled on these trains, and the remains of the band, 400 strong, arrived in Washington about tho end of April. A month later Coxey and two others were imprisoned and fined fur illegal acts, and the movement collapsed.