Seattle's Unemployed Organize for the March on Washington

The local Industrial Army was out in force yesterday afternoon and showed its strength to the Seattle public by staging a parade in which over 300 men were in line, divided into companies. The men marched to the music of the Rialto band. The line of march was from Pike street to Front, down Front to Yesler, up Yesler to Sixth, countermarched to Second, down Second to South Second and thence to the barracks on Weller street. Following the parade, a meeting was held at the army barracks addressed by Mrs. A. J. Mohr and Mrs. P. L. Kerron. Mrs. Mohr was the first to speak, and in a fifteen-minute address, urged the formation of a woman’s auxiliary to the army, composed of women who would be willing to assist the members of the army to Washington City and there solicit the aid necessary to alleviate the present economic depression. She talked over the prevailing hard times and urged the army to lose no time in preparing for the journey to Washington. She did not think there would be any bloodshed and hoped there would be none, and when the army on its travel reached each town, each individual member thereof would carry with him the good wishes of every woman in Seattle.