20,000 Unemployed Led by Reds in Monster Relief Cut Protest (Universal Newsreel, Nov 1932)

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The original release sheet reads: 1. 20,000 UNEMPLOYED LED BY REDS IN MONSTER RELIEF CUT PROTEST: CHICAGO, IL - Singing Communist songs, shouting slogans and flaunting banners calling for gratuities to the jobless as well as various radical “demands,” a determined horde of men, women and children stages a “hunger march” through the Loop, tying up traffic for an hour and giving the city its first taste of organized and exploited discontent. Converging from three directions, despite a steady rain, the marchers push the police aside and carry their pleas to Mayor Cermak at City Hall, thereafter assembling in Grant Park for a mass meeting. Instigated as a demonstration against the impending reduction in municipal support of the needy, the movement falls into the hands of anti-government agitators and winds up with ominous threats and a call for recruits for the proposed hike of a new Idle Army to Washington in December. 2. ROYAL SWEETHEARTS WED AMID SCENES OF POMP AND SPLENDOR: COBURG, GERMANY - With all the elaborate ceremonials that featured the old Hohenzollern regime, the first regal marriage held in the Vaterland since the beginning of the Republic, unites Prince Gustaf Adolf Oscar, eldest son of the Crown Prince of Sweden, the Princess Sibyll of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, daughter of Duke Karl Eduard and Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Glucksburg. Simple civil rites in the 300-year-old Hunting Room of her father’s Castle are followed by impressive nuptials at St. Moritz Church before the most brilliant throng of royalty and nobility assembled this side of the Rhine since the World War. ODD BITS IN TODAY’S NEWS: 3. 56-MILE GALE RAZES RESORT DWELLINGS/BROAD CHANNEL, NY - The worst wind and rain storm in this section in more than 40 years demolishes bungalows, garages and other buildings, washing some of them into Jamaica Bay and leaving the popular summer colony a mass of wreckage. Described as a regular “Kansas twister,” the cyclonic disturbance would have cost scores of lives but for the fact that many houses were closed for the season. Several families, their homes lifted from pilings and dumped into the water, are rescued as they float out with the tide. 4. BOY GENIUS PERFECTS AMAZING MINIATURES/HOLLYWOOD, CA - Remarkable models of steam locomotives, on a scale of 1/48, but which are complete in every detail and can haul a 2000-pound load, the equal of 15 man-power, are made and sold by Kenneth Dewar, 20 years old. He draws the plans, makes his own patterns and castings and does the assembling and testing. He started at the age of 14, and has marketed 15 in the last three years, at about $1,200 each. Big business from a little hobby. 5. SEEK PROSPERITY WITH FIREWORKS/ AMECAMECA, MEXICO - The surest way to frighten off the evils of depression and insure the return of happy days, according to local tradition, is to tie a lot of real firecrackers to a lot of artificial bulls and then dance for all you’re worth. Inasmuch as today is San Lucas day and the bull is the saint’s favorite animal they decided to combine the two and ask for Old Man Prosperity to come back in the ceremony known as “burning the bull.” They might do it. THROWING the bull won’t, that’s a cinch. 6. RECLAIMS FORTUNE FROM OLD FLOORING/BOSTON, MA - The very dirt under your feet is valuable when you walk around in a jewelry shop. So much gold dust and small bits of the precious metal fall and are trampled into the floor that it pays, every now and then, to tear up the boards and recover the wastage. Maurice G. Alperin, a sweep smelter, gets as high as $5,000 worth of bullion from a single store. The wood is burned in a special stove and the ashes and floor sweepings are reduced in a crucible. What’s left is gold alloy or pure gold. At $20.60 a troy ounce, it’s a business. It looks simple, too, to see Maurice do it. 7. WOOD-PAVED STREET RIPPED UP BY NEEDY AS FUEL FOR WINTER: CHICAGO, IL - It’s a great thing when poor people get a break. The municipal authorities, deciding to put modern paving on Blue Island Avenue, notify the unemployed and hard-pressed residents of the neighborhood that the old oil-soaked blocks with which the thoroughfare’s been covered for years, are to be had for the taking. With picks, crowbars, chisels and other tools, men, women and children rush to gather burning material for the cold weather. Regardless of traffic, they dig, pry and gather in tons of first-rate fire-wood. The city gets the old road-way taken out gratis and those in need get a supply of “coal” for the coming months. An odd turn of affairs that helps everyone concerned. 8. ARMY AIRMEN ENGAGE IN THRILLING BOMBING COMBAT FOR CHARITY: LONG BEACH, CA - Squadrons of bombers swooping down and raining explosives on defenseless “villages,’” swarms of pursuit planes darting in winged assault on ships of the bombarding force, “dog-fights,” aerobatics, and other exciting activities of warfare in the skies are demonstrated, before a huge crowd at the municipal airport by pilots from march field, for the benefit of the needy. Power dives of 250 miles an hour and similar feats are among the breath-takers performed by the nation’s crack bird-men. A remarkable “show” of military flying progress. (LOCAL – CANADA) SOLEMN CEREMONY MARKS PRESENTATION OF POLICE COLORS.

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MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

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Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library