The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 2, 1934, Page 2

Page Two “This Is OUR Day,” Say Renegades Unite Marching Thousands As _ With Reformists | DAILY WORKER NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1934 (Rhode Island | | | A.F.L. Unions | BS 2 / So In the Line of March bs By GRACE HUTCHINS loyed!” “We Gi m 5 a iplor- - | « bs Thy P I Ss in S.P. Parade! sew'ronm sera vorer ci|men inane "| Back HR 7598) Re aay eucus ey four into Streets) cin, ee eee ee ee eet ed * State A.F.L. Convention | other workers with r banners, ‘ By SENDER GARLIN (Continued from Page 1) eets of the huge city Forever.” “Down with the N.R.A.,” “We Demand the Right to Join the Unions of Our Own Choice,” their placards read boots—with the reds | The S. P. leaders had rigged up | their grandstand in royal style. All the red noticeable on it until somé | of the marching groups began to Many of the| By 3:30 not only was Union| arrive was the single stripe in the s tors—especially in the work-| Square jammed with workers, but! red-white and blue cloth draped ing-class districts—applauded; | the crowds were &0 thick that traf-' around it. A loud speaker jutted up many were silent, but few showed | fic was blocked on all sides. in front, facing east, and clearly hostility toward maccincaet eo below it, painted on white card- demonstration of orking-class| An automobile is driving south | bo! the initials of the Socialist from Fourth Ave. passés the square, ostentatiousiy displaying a large picture of Roosevelt with publicity slogans for the N. R. A. In the} car sit two gents, one wearing an/ aristocratic topedat with a chin-/ chilla collar. The machine drives slowly across 17th St., and when} the crowd at the square catches ht of the Roosevelt visage, a bombardment of boos hits the car and its two occupants. The faces of the two gents blanche, they| button up their collars and slink | —s0 defiant ciplined! For Soviet U.S. A. Then they came to Union Square, the scene of labor demonstrations for decades. In 1886, nearly 50 years back, 20,000 wo: rs had come Square to demand the eight- hour day. Yesterday, nearly 100,000} workers converged on the Square demand for unemployment in- nee, for the right to strike, and for the establishment of a Soviet yet so orderly Republic in the United States, in their seats, as they order the | = 3 driver to “step on it, Swinging, swaying, shouting and . . * 1g the proletarian masses moved into Union Square. Within a few minutes past two o'clock, more than 25,000 had completely filled the North Side of the Square, but they continued to come, first Circling the Square and then en- tering from the northwest side. ‘The voices of the speakers boomed through the loud speakers, and the| marchers continued to come. At three o'clock the first giant columns mobilized by the fighting Needle Trades Workers’ Union approached 16th St. Dense crowds filled every inch of the sidewalk, and the cops propelled the rumps of their horses to jam the workers toward the buildings . . That squat, little demagogue, La- oe Ses eae Guardia had shrieked in City’ Hall| The police had failed to terrorize | that Van Cortlandt Park was good | these workers on even more trying | enough for a “Communist rally | occasions, And down Fourth Ave But the workers demanded Union they came, théir bands playing the | Square they “International” and “Solidarity | took! The cop in the press box is swing- jing his club impatiently. Oh for| some heads to ¢rack! Suddenly the Red Front Band of the W. I. R strikes up the “Scottsboro Song,” and the cop (shield number 13077) breaks into one of the variations of the “rumba” dance. The capitalist press said that| 1,500 police had beén mobilized; | the headlinés screamed that 1,500 heavily-armed réservés had been| called out; they reported that} rapid-fire pump guns had been dis- | tributed among the cops. | But the workers marched on May | Day! | and Union Square prisoners and passage of the Work- | Vast Army of hae Insurance Bill, Workers in May Ist Demonstrations (Continued from Page 1) Thousands Assembling in Chicago For Parade Through Loop CHICAGO, May 1—Thousands of} workers are now assembling for the May Day march through the Loop on the 48th anniversary of the his- toric International Labor Day in the city of its birth. | A police army of 864 is spread out along the line of march in a vain attempt to intimidate Chicago | workers who forced the police de- partment to withdraw its ban on the May Day parade. Commur candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania; Jack Johnstone, District Organizer of the Commu- nist Party; Ben Careathers, candi- date for the 32nd Congressional District; Jim Eagan, of the Steél and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union The parade was the biggest in Pittsburgh since the steel strike. a series of attacks yesterday at the major plants, arresting workers distributing leaflets and literature. | Thugs shot three workers, as the 40,000 in Philadelphia | bosses mobilized their criminal 5 A | underworld in an attempt to disrupt (Special to the Daily Worker) | the May Day preparations. Despite PHILADELPHIA, May 1.—| these attacks a huge leaflet dis- Over 40,000 workers responded to the call of the United May | stockyards. Day Committee and filled Rey- ee ati burn Plaza to capacity an hour | before the demonstration was| scheduled to begin. (Special to the Daily Worker) Despite threats of the police} CLEVELAND, May 1.—At this that no red flags would be pér-| time, several hours before the cen- mitted, hundreds of red flags | tral United Front May Day demon- waved over the Square. ahs yerenory thousands of workers al- demonstration represented already are waiting at the Public cross-section of Philadelphia | Square where the front ranks of the workers, including strikers, | huge parade will arrive by 4:30 p. m. workers from shops who struck! Thousands are marching through May First, and unemployéd. | the stréets of Cleveland, where Practically all mass organiza- | Ruthenberg in 1919 led the historic tions responded in full force. May Day march, whieh resisted the Especially noteworthy was the | bloody attacks of the municipal ad- participation of many A. F. of | ministration of Mayor Davis, who L. locals with their banners in| also is mayor of the city today. this demonstration, such as the) Workers’ battalions all over the Upholsterers Local, Knitgoods, | city are streaming to the concentra- Cleaners and Dyers, Shoe Work- | tion points, with Red Flags, bands, ers, Needle Tradés Workers and placards with slogans against Hun- Federal Unions. ger, Fascism and War and for a = x : Soviet America. The line of march Field Artillery Called Out in js lined with additional thousands Misouri | cheering the demonstrators. At this MINDEN, Mo., May 1.—Interstate hour it is impossible to estimate the Streets at Last Report. roads bristled with field artillery) numbérs in the march, as the many) and machine guns today, as the columns are constantly being swelled State government, acting on the With new contingents of workers. orders of the mine owners, called) A delegation from the demonstra- out the militia to prevent striking | tors went this morning to the Ger- Kansas miners crossing over into| man Consulate to present the de- Missouri to join Missouri mine| mand of the workers for the release sttikers in May Day demonstra- | of Ernst Thaelmann and the tens of tions. thousands of revolutionary fighters Four batteries of field artillery|m the Nazi prisons and concentra- were encamped here, another| tion camps. squadron in Barton county, and/| xis hundreds of Staté highway troops) patrolled interstate roads. A joint meeting of Missouri, Kansas, Ar-| Over 800 enthusiastic workers dem- kansas and Oklahoma mine owners| onstrated on the Town Hall steps was closely guarded by police, fol-/today for their local demands and lowing scare stories in the local) against Fascism and War, 150 par- press that a group of over 1,000| ticipated in the May Day parade. unemployed Kansas miners were|Many members of the Stamford marching into Kansas. The mine! Relief Workers League joined the operators had met to plan united! United Front. The meeting was ad- action against payment of the so-|dressed by speakers representing calléd minimum charge. the Young Communist League, the Striking and unemployed miners Relief Workers League and J. Mel- in the four states held scores of ton, District Organizer of the Com- May Day demonstrations for their munist Party. demands for the new wage scale,/ Fo eC Ae the right to organize and strike, | 30,0 DEMONSTRATE IN against unemployment, hunger, fas- | BOSTON cism and war. BOSTON, May 1.—Twenty. thou- gent tear |sand workers demonstrated on the 2,000 Out in Paterson, N. J. | Common today in a militant May (Special to the Daily Worker) |Day demonstration. About 15,000 | marched. PATERSON, N. J., May 1—Two! atthe Common, the demonstra- thousand workers participated in tors were addressed by McCarth: the May Day demonstration this | of tne Marine Workers Industrial noon at Sandy Hill Park. Over 500| Union, Alice Burke of the Unem- were in the May Day parade. ployment Council, Carter of the In- I. Amter, National Secretary of |ternational Labor Defense, Fred the Unemployed Councils was the | Biedenkapp of the United Shoe and main speaker. Other speakers in-|reather Workers Union and N. cluded Moe Brown, National Sec-| Sparks of the Communist Party. retary of the National Textile) Police voeation ft Workers Union; Sam Reed for the PRL ates et eae 800 Demonstrate in Stamford STAMFORD, Conn. May 1— | Party | WEVD. Shortly after 12 o'clock, the WEVD announcer stepped up to the micro- phone, “Hello, hello.” he said. “You People across the street, can you hear me? Answer, some of you people, answer.” Several of “you people” called back, “Yeah” and “O. K.” Then the 8, P. announcer turned the mike so that it faced the Paramount news- reel truck, about fifty feet to he! north of the stand. e *‘T see the Paramount boys are The Paramount boys whis- and waved back to him. “Just a little free publicity, very good these days,” the announcer; concluded, with a broad smile. His voice, suave and oiled, drolled out above the listeners. Life is more real and basic to them; they haven't radio broadcasting station, section of workers and the Russian Marine Workers Club of New York, then the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union and the ex-service- men’s band. In front of us we could sée the waiting to fall in behind us, this tall marine worker became more| vigorous. We turned toward Fifth Ave., crossed it and moved down Park Ave., where the windows of fashionable apartment houses weré lined with well-fed men and w looking down on us rather anxi 4 A rich man’s club at 48 Park Ave. had a special cop on duty, and in the window stood half a dozen gen- tlemen, each with a paunch that seemed to touch ile window-ledge. The tall seaman shouted slogans | with greater vigor: “Down with the rich!” “Down with the money- bage!” “Down with J. P. Morgan: His tone had such a feeling in it that I turned around and saw the haggard seriousness of his face. The seaman beside me explained: “Til tell you why he shouts that way. He livés in a flop-house. He doesn’t have enough to eat, some- times nothing for a long time.” massed colors of gorgeous red. An automobile with the five Scottsboro mothers passed us slowly amid cheers and a prolohged shout: “The Scottsboro Boys Shall Not Die.” Promptly at 10:30 we stepped out with the band playing the Interna- tional and swung into Broadway for the long march uptown. Well-disci- plinéd ranks of four abreast. Clench- ed fists for the chorus, as we swept past Wall Street and saw the well- dressed spectators reading the slogans on our banners and signs. A little Negro boy, about 6 years old, and his mother came from the side-lines as we moved up Broad- way and fell into line with us. Swiftly the comrades made a new line, so they should not march alone. One gave the child a red pennant, another gave him an apple. As we marchéd mie after mile, we thought the child would be tired and a comrade took him on his shoulder for a block or two. But Freddie kept up with the line the 35 the tall seaman: | “Down with the oppressors of the poor!” We were moving Square, round the Square, up to the The band started again to play| Bill that the Wagner bill was not | Solidarity, and behind me I heard | even discussed. ere: into Union| end to William Green, notifying | them of the action of the conven- reviewing stand, past Oarl Brodsky | Mon) and Jack Stachel and the others./4 # of L, in Rhode Island were And there were the five Soottebora| urged to take similar action on the Rah- Rah! Endorses Bill Unanimously | eoriate me | ])R. FREDRICK ROBINSON, PROVIDENCE, R. I, May 1—| The Rhode Island Sta yen- * ry ; re en with 188 | he gives tea parties. He is delegates representing 84 locals| patriotism and speeches, and | from practically every city and town in the state, endorsed the Workers’ Unemployment Insurancé Bill (H. R. 7598) without a single | be enticed into a job where dissenting vote at its meeting on | i ‘ Sunday, April 20. | the gold is more plentiful and The résolution for the bill was| the subjects, perhaps, less ir- brought into the convention by the| reverent than they are in City Painters’ Local 195 of Providence| college, Mr. Finley is now one of and the Machinists’ Local of New-/ the editors of the New York Times, port. Jand even though he is ungram- Although the Wagner “Reserves”| matical and dull, he is quite an) Bill was sent into the resolutions| authority, to the readers of that committee by William Green, presi-| high-minded rag, as can be judged dent of the A. F. of L., there was by the number cf hi vitations to | much sentiment for the Worke! addtess such learned societies as Rotary and the Junior League. He has, also, by dint of his many vir- tues and perception, managed to get a number of friendly bankers to look out for his financial interests. It is to be deplored, therefore, that | the state of humor has fallen so low in City College that Dr. Robinson is known as “Umbrella Fred.” This is| a contumely and a horror. It is said The convention voted to send resolutions to Rhode Island Con- ssmen and Senators, to Roosevelt All affiliated locals of the Mr. John Finley, who also sees vi jsuffer himself, eventually, to* |“A dose of rahrahism may the president of City College, is a gentleman much respected by the old ladies to whom an inspired man, devoted to ike his predecessor and friend, ons, he will undoubted the clumsy and florid George Trevor, Priedman counts on developing an ésprit de corps .. . and, by awaken- ing student enthusiasm for football, counteract the communistic propa- ganda which has corroded & certain section of the undergraduate body.” prove who, with a host of his idealistic col- leagues, has often publicly deplored the racket which the colleges have meade of football. It is the custom of our sports writers to comment acidly upon the practise of colleges to support blockheads and provide them with high class estimates of their scholarship in return for the use of their football prowess. The records show that most of these thirsters after knowledge have it» mediately entered professional foot- time to worry about free publicity. * . * whole way, even though he got a blister on his héel and limped a lit- tle toward the end. His mother was tired too but she kept on matching. At the main gathering points of the S. P. parade, the various groups did not begin to assemble until mothers, with Mother Bloor, all with flowers, smiling and waving. | ‘We sang the chorus of the Inter- national with clenched fists as we} | Workers’ Bill. Fraternal Organizations Act The Swedish Workingmen’s Asso- shortly before noon. One spot of particular interest, the 8. P. and renegade papers had announced, was 20th St., “from Fifth to Seventh Ave.” where the I. W. W., the Love- stoneites and Trotskyites were to assemble. Mass of Renegades—300 We walked down Sevénth Ave., to Behind us a tall, nollow-cheeked seaman led the section in shouting the slogans, “Down with imperialist war!” “All war funds for the uném- passed, ciation of Rhode Island, a sick ben- Just one thing the little Negro efit society, also endorsed the bill. boy and his mother wanted—to get) A membér of the Right to Live close up to the stand where the| Club spoke on the bill at a miass Scottsboro mothers stood. | meeting of Irish workers, at which |Sean Murray, Ifsh Communist | leader, spoke. The entire audience |of Irish workers voted to endorse 200,000 Workers Mass in Union Ree bill and to work for its passage. that the mere mention of this ap- pellation causes Dr. Robinson to be-| they have not heretofore been put come so agitated that instead of| into jail for seducing infatuated masticating his lady-fingers like a) piris or have not garnered a fortune eter . he cee + Sao | through stock market tips from en- ing at the time. he crushes them) thusiastic swindlers among the between his teeth. Thus it can be) seta wee 2 seen that Pr. Robinson is a gentle- | my~ Joyal alumni of City College man with a delicate ‘gorge. The 4 are supposed to be paying Pried- proper element brings him ss; are su ae 4 supposed to be paying Fried- only the radicals in City College man’s salary. as the college itself “is plague him not financially e - | me ly equipped to shoulder The radicals ate responsible for} so ambitious a project at this time.” ball, after leaving the academies, if (Special to the Daily Worker) | Plain clothes police carried out} tribution was carried out in the| Cleveland Workers Still Surging Into | 20th St. No sign of a group in sight. Only the occasional figures of passing pedestrians. We walked} down to Sixth Ave. There too, no sign of life. Finally we stumbled across the “united and solid” ranks By CARL REEVE of the three groups—a pitiful total ‘ of perhaps three hundred, includ-| (Continued from Page 1) ing wives and children, The only tional w workers in evidence hete were some) of the marine workers marching with the I. W. W., holding their | inneffectual, almost absolete slogans | in the air. At the Rand School, main gathering point for the 8. P. pa- raders, there was far more color; | ee atte orker Sepwrter|tion of the broadest unity of the pencil in hand, began to speak to workers. First came the huge red a Negro 8. P. worker now em- | banner of the Communist Party, ployed at C. W. A. work, a hys-| then the United Front May Day terical Socialist woman official) Committee. The marine workers’ clutched at his notes and tore contingent, led by the Marine some of them. The Negro worker, | Workers’ Industrial Union, marched | who, when he last had a real job| in the forefront, closely followed by was a mechanical draughtsman, he several thousand marching veterans told the “Daily” reporter, In an-| under the banners of the Workers’ | swer to questions he said that “On| Ex-Servicemen’s Leagues. The vet- the whole, I'm not in disagreement erans carried huge banners with the with the International Labor De-| slogan, “On to Washington fer the ;fense. I believe that they handled | Cash Bonus, May 10.” |the Scottsboro case with sincerity, Thousands upon thousands of and with loyalty to the interests of trade union members marched, with | the Negroes.” Other members of banners of the revolutionary unions, the Socialist Party with whom he| the Steel and Metal Workers’ In- |had spoken, he declared, are also| dustrial Union, the United Shoe | “fairly in sympathy with the I. L.| Union, the Needle Trades Workers’ ,D., especially its handling of the Industrial Union, the Food Work- | Scottsboro case.” ers’ Industrial Union, Other thou- Vilifies ‘Daily’ Reporter |sands of trade union marchers, After a few more questions, the, Members of the American Federa- | woman with the 8. P. badge rushed | tion of Labor, carried banners of A. up, yelling, “You dirty rat, you dirty | F. of L. local unions and of the rev- Communist, why don’t you go into| Olutionary opposition within the A. our office if you want to ask ques-|F. of L. tions! You dirty—.” One of thé largést contingents in As several S. P. toughs menaced| the parade was the Unemployed the reporter, other workers sprang | Councils and the Relief Workers’ to his side to aid him. When he| Leagues, with several thousands in e will carry on a victorious fight for the revolutionary solution to the crisis, for a Soviet govern- ment of America.” Vets March With Other Workers The historical outpouring of New York workers, under the leadership of the Communist Party, into Union Square was an inspiring demonstra- | walked off the Daily Worker re-| porter shouted to the Negro worker | | and to all within earshot, “Read the ; Daily Worker tomorrow fot your | interview!” | The needle trades workers gath- ered on 16th St. and Fifth Ave., outside of the headquarters of the International Ladies’ Garment) Workers Union. Then this, together with other groups, started on its line of march—a line of march much smaller than that of the United Front May Day Demon- stration. In fact, the S. P. march | travelled in a small are completely contained within the far greater are of the United Front paraders. “Happy Days Are Here Again” In the §, P. ranks, aside from) the presence of groups of rénegades from Communism and outlived and liféless groups, were apparent all | the contradictions of this most| heterogeneous “united front” ever) assembled in New York City. Mayor | LaGuardia and other city officials) did not participate on this acca-| sion, as they had on others, with) the expressed invitation of the S. P. leaders. But the workers who lined the streets must have sensed the mock- ery, must have been indignant, at) the §S. P. and right-wing union bands marching down the streets playing “The Stars and Stripes Forever” ‘and “Happy Days Are Here Again.” (This second jazz) melody, turned out by Tin Pan} Alley as part of the big-business and demagogic prosperity prop-| aganda campaign, was played, it! will be remembered, by a group of southern lynchers who burned a Negro boy to death about a year Ago.) AS we cut crosstown from Seventh Avenue to rejoin the solid, colorful and heartening ranks of the United Front May Day Demonstration, a réd traffic light cut the end of thé S. P. parade in two. There was only a bit of it left—perhaps fifty in the last small segment, a pitiful writhing tail cut off from the rest of the Socialist-Party-led march. They still waited there as we hur- ried our steps to reach the great body of workers—the masses tnarch- ing proudly past the reviewing stand Communist Party; Nathan Liss, A. F.-of L. rank and file worker; Monigo, young Negro worker, mem- ber of the Unemployed Council, and Goldberg for the Young Commu- nist League. Charles Gruney of the Loom Fixers and Twisters Club was Chairman. The demonstration adopted reso- lutions demanding the release of Ernst Thaelmann, Torgler and other enti-fascist fighters, release of the | Scottsboro Boys, Angelo Herndon, : clashes. The parade from the Com- mons ended with one thousand at Blackstone Park, South End. A delegation elected at the demon- stration interviewed Saltonstall the speaker of the House who declared that he was against Unemployment Insurance and refused to give any | opinion on injunctions. Set Up Machine Gun Against Springfield Workers SPRINGFIELD. [ll, May 1— Deputies arméd with shotguns and Tom Mooney and all class war machine guns petrolled the Sanga- on Union Square. mon County courthouse today to prevent the holding of a May Day demonstration for which the police had refused a permit. The pretext offered by Sheriff Cole is that he “received a tip that thé courthouse would be bombed.” A preparatory May Day méeting | of unemployed workers was at- tacked by the sheriff and his depu- | ties last night, j line. Three thousand members of the National Students’ League were in line, representing all colleges in the city and many high schools. The thousands of youth throughout the parade, especially contingents of the Young Communist League and the students, added fire to the demonstration. All nationalities were marching under their workers’ club banners in line, including In- dians (Hindus), Chinese, Japanese, Spanish workers, Irish, German and Jewish workers, and scores of other language workers’ clubs. A forest of red flags and ban- ners, of placards, trucks, busses |and floats added color to the | scene in Union Sq. and to the parade. The Daily Worker was prominent in the Square, and throughout the parade. Red Buildérs, with white sweatshirts, adorned with “Red Builders” in red across their backs and chests, sold thousands during the course of the day. The mother of the youngest Scottsboro boy, Mrs. Williams, called for the solidarity of white and Negro workers in the struggle to free the Scottsboro Boys framed by the boss class. “The Interna- tional Labor Defense is the only organization that, together with the workers, can do any good for the} boys,” she said. Eula Grey, whose uncle was mur- dered by Southern sheriffs for his militant activities in the Share- croppers Union, the organization of Negro and white southern farmers, received a tremendous ovation when she sang the sharecroppers’ song: “Lenin is our leader, we shall not be moved! Lenin is our leader, we shall not be moved! Just like a tree that’s standing by the water, We shall not be moved!” “Free the Scottsboro Boys” was the demand on many plac- ards. Other Hogant carried by the marchers called for ‘“Work- ers Unemployment Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598)”, “Fight Against Fascism and War: Long Live the Revolutionary Trade Unions,” “Free “Down With Roosevelt's Forced Labor Camps.” One huge sign stated, “Forward Under the Banner of the Communist International!” The students carried a large banner inscribed, “We Pledge Not to Support the Government of the United Statés in Any War It May Conduct.” Many signs called for the freedom of Ernst Thaeimann, and against German and world Fascism; for exposure of the strikebreaking N.R.A.; for the “Unity of the Communist Angelo Herndon,” Sq. In Greatest May First Meet Cops Attack May 1 | 4nd Socialist Workers; for De- j fense of the Soviet Union: Hail to Soviet China; for Unity of | ; the Negro and White Workers,” | jand hundreds of others. Many | workers, including the veterans, the C.C.C. contingent, the ci | nurses, and others, were in uni-| | form. | These slogans were not only| |ecarried on the banners, they | were shouted by the marchers, | they were thrown back by the| | thousands lining the streets, they ; sounded through the micro-| ;Phones from the reviewing | stands and from the depths of | | the great crowd of workers in| the square. | Will Help Boys, Says Scotts: | boro Mother | | In the reviewing stand sat the | | mothers of the Scottsboro boys, | | Viola Montgomery, Olen Mont-| gomery, Ida Norris, Josephine Powell, Jamie Patterson and Ma- ;mie Williams. Mrs. Powell, | | mother of Ozzie, said that it was | [the greatest demonstration she | had ever seen. “It will help the | fight to free our boys,” she} told the Daily Worker. Ruby. | Bates, sitting in the midst of | | the Scottsboro mothers on the, | reviewing stand, said to the Daily, Worker, “I can’t begin to say | what this demonstration means to me. So many workers awak- ned to the freedom of our boys. | When they hear of this in the South, of thousands of Negro and white workers, demonstrat- ing side by side, it will have a great effect.” The great throng unanimously, and with tremendous outburst of enthusiasm, passed resolutions for |the immediate enactment of the | Workers Unemployment and Social | Insurance Bill, (HR 7598) which called on La Guardia and the city | 8overnment to indorse the bill; a | resolution demanding the freedom | of the Scottsboro Boys; a resolution | | demanding the immediate release | of the political prisoners, ineluding | | Mooney, Herdon, etc.; a resolution | | calling for a vigorous fight against | | the danger of imperialist war now! | being carried through by Roose-| velt's New Deal; a resolution de- |manding the release of Ernst | Thaelmann and other prisoners of | fascist Germany from prison; and a resolution demanding the freedom of the prisoners in Cuba end the withdrawal of Caffrey from Cube by the U. S. imperialist government, The speakers at the Union, Square meeting were: Herbert Ben- jamin, national organizer of the Unemployment Councils; Norman Tallentire of the League for Strug- gle Against War and Fascism; Henry Shephard, of the Trade Union Unity League; Rivers, of the Steel and Metal Workers’ Industrial Union; Joseph Cohen, executive secretary of the National Students’ League; Siskind, of the District Committee of the Communist |Party; Pauline Rogers, of the Na- | tional Committee to Aid the Vic- tims of German Fascism; Cac- chione, of the Workers’ Ex-Service- men's League; Rose Wortis, of the |T. U. U. L.; Ed Sullivan, of the} New York Unemployment Councils; | Ho, representing the Chinese work- ers, M. Olgin, of the Freiheit; Willi- ana Burroughs, of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, Harold Baxter, of the Marine Workers’ In- dustrial Union; Ben Gold, of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union; Samuels, of the Women’s Councils; Nashimo, representing the Japanese workers, and speakers from the International Labor De- fense, the shoe and food and other unions, As the Yarge car bearing the five Scottsboro mothers, each with a large bouquet of bright yellow and red flowers, passed the crowds of workers lining the sidewalks, they were applauded and cheered and hailed with the workers’ clenched fist salute Also in the car, seated beside two of the Scottsboro mothers was Ruby Bates. Ella Reeve Bloor, veteran farm fighter beamed a youthful smile from the front seat. A banner calling for the “Immediate and safe ; stage a torchlight parade through his vulgar nickname. Not being) content to believe that the bankers and industrialists are benevolently | managing national and international relations, and that a war is good for the workers, they succeed, by their) nefarious propaganda, in staging a/ hugé anti-war demonstration on the grounds of City College, last year—| which they followed up, again suc- | cessfully, this year. The first demonstration, it will be | remembered, Dr. Robinson, return- ing from a tea-party, with a num- ber of ladies, rushéd into the midst of the crowd, using his umbrella as) @ spear. The umbrella was gently taken from Dr. Robinson's hand and the New York Committee for the | his body was deposited a number of Defense of Political Prisoners. | feet away. More than 10,000 people partici- . . . | pated in the last demonstration. | mHTS indignity, Dr. Robinson has| Erna Stems, Otto Durick and Her- not forgotten. Nor has he failed to | | Rally in Ridgewood Workers Reform Ranks After Police Charge NEW YORK.—Another anti- Nazi demonstration will be held Thursday night on 86th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues, by the German Anti- Fascist Committee, affiliated with bert Klein are scheduled to speak. | take cognizance of the fact that the On May 10, the Committee will | students of City College are be- coming, as he says with hands raised Yorkville. Aa in supplication,“rapidly bolshevized.” | , Not only are they participating in NEW YORK—Police in Ridge-| demonstrations of increasing size, wood attacked a meeting of but they unhesitatingly strike during | workers on Monday night, club- bing the workers, beating two seriously, and arresting Louis Justin, charging him with “dis- orderly conduct.” Justin is be- ing held in $500 hail. An open-air meeting under the auspices of the Communist Party, the Young Communist League, the Workers Ex-Servicemen’s League, the Women’s Council, and the German Workers Club was held at Woodbine ahd Myrtle Ave. While Justin was addressing school hours and, what is more,| force the college administration to) deal out only farce punishments to} these violators of the grove it seeks to railroad. : With the result, as the Sun re-| ported last Saturday, that there is) now “a political angle. . © in ©. ©. N. Y. football.” The college has ac quired Prof. Benny Friedman, a/ noted man with the pigskin, to coach | the eleven, with the idea of “off-| sétting Red propaganda.” | “A born morale-builder,” writes Who these alumni are it is diffi- cult to say, save that the group en- gaging Friedman is headed by one Maurice Deiches, a graduate of Michigan, as well. Trevor's rémarks, of course, are typical of the ignorance and heed- lessnéss of the general run of sports writers. There is about it especially something downright hypocritical and hideous. He talks of an “ideal antidote” for the poison of “adoles- | cent Bolshévsm,” which has taken form in protest against war. What he offers recommendation to is “rahrahism.” Sports. too, may become an opium, when developed into rahrahism; and here we have an illustration in the attempt to use it in that form. It must not be forgotten that it was rahrahism which put scholar- ship in the background during the so-called prosperous days, and which the Carnegie Foundation denounced, Instead of being judged by theses the collegians gained favor by their ability in: 1, sports: 2, boozing; 3, seduction; 4. gambling. All these lend themselves among cultured alumni, to rahrahs. It seems to me that if Friedman does not immediately protest Trév- or’s statement that the part of the undergraduate body and alumni which has principles and senses | should make a determined effort to yank him out. If he has been en- gaged to give City College rahrah he is certainly no flower on the escutcheon. I am pretty sure the Carnegie Foundation will not in- vestigate these purposes of rahrah, about 500 workers, the police at- tacked, and pulled him off the speakers stand. As Martha Crony Of Socialist | some cheering, all impressed by the Stone, section organizer of the C. P., rose to speak, she was hurled from the stand by the police. Despite the police attack, the workers formed into ranks, marched for several blocks, and, as they turned into Myrtle Ave., the police, their ranks now aug- mented by scorés of othér cops, again attacked. Banners were torn from the workers, hands, and two workers were injured so badly that it was necessary to send them to the hospital. Unbroken by the savage charges of the police, the work- ers again formed at Grand St. Extension, and again held an open-air meeting. streamed across the front of the car. For hours before the parade reached a given spot, the sidewalks were already lined with workers, some three and four deep. As the sea of red banners swept into view, loud cheers broke out from the sides. Many joined the demonstrators in the revolutionary songs played by the colorful 50-piece W.LR. band, which followed immediately after the United Front May Day Com- mittee. Workers Watch from Shops As the workers marched through the industrial sections of downtown, along Varick Street,, and lower Eighth Avenue, hundreds of heads appeared at the factory windows, colorful display of working class unity and strength. As the parade swung past 17th, 18th, 19th and other streets on} Eighth Avenue where the Second | Division was massed, waiting to join the first division, cheers of greeting broke out from both sections. Hundreds of workers followed the line of march along the sidewalks. Several times along the line a group of students of the National Students League quitting their class rooms to join the parade, waited with their placards until the bannérs of their Birmingham Police; Threaten Attack (Special to the Daily Worker) BIRMINGHAM, Ala. May 1— Chief of Police Luther Hollums con- tinued to threaten violence against Negro and white workers preparing for the May Day demonstration here day, ‘We are going to teach these fellows a lesson they will remember. It will serve as a warning to other extremists to stay clear of Birming- ham in the future.” The fascist White Legion held a special meeting last night to com- bat Communism, with an attend- ance of 200, including two judges, police and a preacher who led the prayer declaring “Let the police do it.” Robert Gulledge, who boasts of his strike-breaking activities in Gas- tonia and Harlan, and heads the White Legion, declared they offered police commissioner Downs a thousand men, but Downs refused. Gulledge said the Communist Party “was dynemite,” but that the Legion was ready te drive “every black son of a b— out of town.” Charles Norrel, known as one of the most vicious of the police spoke of the beating he received last year when he arrested Jane Speed. The police were furnished with this morning.. A special meeting of the White Legion is called for 3 pm. today in Judge Romaine Boyd's courtroom, COHEN’S 117 ORCHARD STREET Nr. Delancey Street, New York City {8 EXAMINED By JOSEPH LAX, 0.D. ‘Optometrist Wholesale Opticians Tel. ORchard 4-4520 Factory on Premises at 5 o'clock. He told the press to- | new riot sticks and machine guns | Leaders Threatens Troops In Strike (Daily Worker Washington Burean) WASHINGTON, May 1.—Nicolas Kelley, the Automobile Manufac- | turers representative who until | quite recently was a member of the | Socialist Party controlled League for Industrial Democracy and is now a member of the National Automobile Board, threatened to call out the Michigan militia in the event of a general automobile strike, it was learned here today. “We'll call out the militia if the men strike,” Kelley declared at a Detroit meeting of the Auto Board, which was attended by Dr. Leo Wol- man of the National Labor Board and Richard Byrd of the A. F. of |L., both board associates of Kelley, Kelley's name still appears on the letter head of the Emergency Committee for Strikers Relief, the chairman of which is Norman Thomas, Socialist Party leader. DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. 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