HUNGER MARCHES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17472, 22 January 1931, Page 7

HUNGER MARCHES

DEMONSTRATIONS IN U.S. VIOLENT UNEMPLOYED NEW YORK, Jan. 20. Unemployed groups, many of whom professed themselves to be Communists, stageil demonstrations and hunger inarches throughout the United States to-day. The police in Los Angeles, Dauburv, Connecticut, New Brunswick, and New Jersey battled with mobs creating disturbances. A mob attacked, wrecked and looted a grocery shop, from which they took food in the business section of Oklahoma City. The police finally routed the rioters with gas bombs. The police at Haverhill. Massachusetts, had considerable trouble with the rioters, who demanded the dole. A crowd of unemployed in New York City surrounded the City Hall and demanded "work or wages." RAISING RELIEF FUNDS GENEROUS GIFTS NEW YORK, Dec. 7. Individuals aro giving very generously to the unemployed before the holidays. The two Rockefellers, for instance, have offered 200.0C0 days' work. This is a new standard of value, but probably approximate* to £203.00.). Simultaneously, a New York banking group announced gifts to relief expenses in excess of _ £600.000. The goal set in the New York campaign was J8120.C00 by December 17 It will he. exceeded. This is symptomatic of similar movements tbrougbo'il the country. Among experts concerned in these movements the Iloovcriau suggestion of £23.000.000 for unemployment relief to ho congressionally voted for administration by bis Cabinet, calls forth differing opinions, with rather bitter resentment, by certain Congressional groups. In respoiif (o n request made In Colonel Arthur Woods, chairman of the President's Emergency Committee for Employment, Ihe council of the American .society rjf Mechanical Engineers promised the help of iis 20.000 members iif making a survey of such employment stabilisation schemes as exist, in Ihe United Stales, with a view In deter mining bow to effectf a nation-wide stabilisation of industry. A number of bankers, business men. and social workers in New York are organising what is (o be known as an Emergency Committee for Federal Public Works to support a propositi for a (!o\ eminent issue of a £200,000.000 employ menfc bond issue, and out of the proceeds begin necessary public works on a big scale to relieve unemployment and end business depression.