News from various assembly points on the Pacific Coast as Hunger Marchers prepare for their cross-country trek.

‘West Coast Marchers to Reach Washington December 5^th’ from Western Worker. Vol. 1 No. 24. November 14, 1932.

COAST HUNGER MARCH DELEGATES ELECTED LEAVE SEATTLE, S.F. NOV. 15, L.A. NOV. 14

Food, Clothing and Money Needed to Maintain Delegates Marching For Winter Relief and Bonus.

MASS SENDOFF TO L.A. HUNGER MARCH DELEGATES NOV. 10

Thousands of leaflets Tell March Plans to Workers

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3. Details of the mass sendoff of the Los Angeles delegates to the National Hunger March were completed at a meeting of the L.A. Unemployed Council and WESL today. Committee reports indicated that the work of obtaining provisions, funds, banners and truck transportation were going forward well. Five thousand leaflets have already been issued calling for a mass send off Thursday, Nov. 10th, at the K.P. Hall at 8 P.M. Ten thousand more leaflets will be issued and distributed in the next few days.

On Monday afternoon, the Unemployed Council will elect four delegates to complete the Southern California quota of 18, four WESL delegates already being elected. It was reported that at a Lawndale block committee meeting November 2, the five following comrades were nominated Hester, Kane, Saunders, Ovenden and Rush; while Comrade Coyne. was nominated from the migratory workers.

FRESNO FARMERS ELECT DELEGATES TO NAT. MARCH

Rosenberg’s Paying Less Than Minimum State Scale

FRESNO, Calif., Nov. 4. News that the United Farmers League from Kerman, Calif., has elected two delegates to go with the unemployed workers to Washington, D.C., on the National Hunger March has created a stir here.

Though there are 2300 on the welfare at the present time the San Joaquin Labor Bureau has advertised a shortage of cotton pickers, and an attempt is being made to get workers from Los Angeles for this work. Wages are 40c a hundred pounds. As it is almost impossible to make more than 60c a. day at this rate, workers are finding themselves unable to keep alive and work. Insufficient food forces them back to town. Then the Welfare forces them back again after giving emergency relief.

Workers in the canning and drying plants are equally bad off. In Rosenberg’s plant, girls are getting 20c an hour for five hours of night work and all day Sunday. This is a flagrant violation of the Minimum State Wage Law. The bosses are allowed to make this violation because it is part of Hoover’s stagger system spreading starvation.

Vet Conference Elects Delegates For Bonus March

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2. Three hundred worker veterans and their families cheered loudly tonight when the final plans for a rank and file bonus march were announced at a rally held in the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League quarters, 1223 Fillmore.

Five world war veterans addressed the meeting. They pointed out how they had been fooled into fighting for Wall Street billionaires in 1917 only to face starvation today along with the rest of the working-class. The time had come, they said, for a vigorous struggle against the powers of Wall Street to collect their back wages, the bonus, and demand Unemployment Insurance for the entire working-class.

The San Francisco delegation was elected, and will leave November 15th, arriving in Washington December 5.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 7. San Francisco will be represented by a delegation of 10 in the National Hunger March. This was decided Friday night at a mass conference attended by more than 300. Included in the delegation will be representatives of the youth sections as well as the Unemployed Council branches and the Marine Workers.

There will be two representatives each from the Fillmore and Mission Unemployed Councils, two from the Marine Workers Industrial Union, one from, North Beach and three from the Down Town branches of the Unemployed Councils. These were elected by the individual organizations and approved at the conference.

The meeting was notable for the enthusiastic discussion in support of the National Hunger March and the liberal response in donations of cash and pledges of clothing, shoes, blankets, food and other donations.

The duration of the march has not been determined, consequently it was pointed out by speakers’ from the Unemployed Councils, Ex-Servicemen’s League, the Workers International Relief and the rank and file, the best efforts of all sympathizers will be required in raising funds and necessities until the marchers have returned.

SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 7. The preparations for the National Hun ger March are under way in full swing and the minimum quota of 60 delegates from the northwest district will be easily filled.

Many affairs are being arranged throughout the district to finance the delegates on the way to Washington. Two trucks and one car have already been provided. Organizations of workers and A.F. of L. locals are being visited for endorsement of the March, for collecting money, food and warm clothing for the delegates who will go through the cold northern route.

The delegates will leave Seattle on November 15th. An advance car has been sent to make arrangements for the sheltering and feeding delegates in the towns enroute.

San Jose Section Elects 2 Marchers

SAN JOSE, Nov. 7. At a conference of over 50 delegates coming from workers organizations of San Jose, Mt. View, Santa Cruz, Watsonville, Monterey, Salinas, Redwood City, San Mateo and other points in the section two delegates were elected for the Coast Hunger March delegation. One of the delegates is a young Agricultural worker of Watsonville and the other a Phillipino Agricultural worker.

All warm clothing, food and funds for maintaining the delegates on the way to Washington should be. sent to 81 Post Street, San Jose.

Five Delegates From Arizona

PHOENIX, Ariz., Nov. 7. At mass meetings held in Phoenix and Tucson five delegates were elected to take part in the Hunger March to Washington. The delegates will join the Column coming through from Los Angeles on November 27.

Portland Hunger Marchers Leave For Wash. Nov. 13

PORTLAND, Nov. 3. The Oregon group of the Unemployed National Hunger Marchers will depart from Portland the morning of November 13th.

They will join the Seattle group and from there will continue eastward together. Because of the late start in preparing for the march, Portland is having considerable difficulty in raising enough finances and means of transportation. Everything possible is being done by the local Unemployed Council and workers ex-Servicemen’s League, to get enough funds, food and means of transportation for the departing delegates.

Although some want to leave by freight, this will be a last resort. A local delegated conference will held Saturday, November 5th, where ten delegates to Washington will be elected.

There will be a send-off rally held in the Workers’ Center, 2452 Alder Street, November 12th. All finances, clothes, etc., for the march should be rushed to the Workers’ Center.

Western Worker was the publication of the Communist Party in the western United States, focused on the Pacific Coast, from 1933 until 1937. Originally published twice monthly in San Francisco, it grew to a weekly, then a twice-weekly and then merged with the Party’s Daily Worker on the West Coast to form the People’s Daily World which published until 1957. Its issues contain a wealth of information on Communist activity and cultural events in the west of those years.

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