The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-10
$4,000 TEXTILE
STRIKERS PARADE
A. F. of L. Rival March
Musters Only 1000

C0ntlnUeU from rage One
out of the north and south ends of
the city toward common junction
in the center, the leaders of the Tex
tile Council of the United Textile
Workers Union stepped to the head
of parade" which generous esti-
mates place at 1000 participants.
The would-be betrayers of the strike
then led their meagre group of fol-
lowers away from any possible con-
tact with the T. M. C. parade,
directly to the outskirts of the town
to a short disheartened meeting in
Buttonwood Park.
The masses collecting since one
o'clock in the afternoon at either
end of the city received the signal
to march at 2:30, and after reach
ing the center, merged themselves
into a single column. They then
paraded into Pleasant St. which is
thanked by City Hall, swank hotels,
clubs and the Textile Councils head
quarters. The streets echoed the
crashing and blaring bands and the
cheering throngs, in what is ad-
mittedly enc of the greatest labor
manifestations in the history of
New England.
Minor in Parade.
At the head of the parade marched
Robert Minor, Editor of the Daily
Worker, William T. Murdoch and
Fred E. Beal, strike organizers;
Fred Biedenkapp, the Workers In
ternational Relief; Tony Samieras,
Eli Keller, Ellen Dawson and Jack
Rubinstein, union organizers. After
them came the members of the
strike committee consisting of about
100 workers. A special division of
500 prisoners composed of strikers
who were arrested, jailed and are
still facing trial for their picketing
activities, then followed, A huge
banner, shaped in the shield of In
ternational Labor Defense, was
carried by striker leading this
division of honor. Then came
pageants of hundreds of Portuguese
and Polish women strikers dressed
in the costumes of their native coun.
tries. Bouquets of roses and other
flowers, woven into the initials Of
the T. M. c. were born on the Shout.
ders of marchers.
Then came the main body of the
parade. Looking far down the
length of the parade column, the
marchers were divided off into sec.
lions made up of the operatives ir
each of the Sc mills tied up by the
strike. Each section carried pla
card indicating that this is the Mil
Committee of their particular fac.
tory.
Police Threats.
Police officials, leading the com
pletely modified city force, halted
the parade several times will
threats to disperse it if the division.
of Young Pioneers, a Communis
childrens' organization, was not or
dered to quit the parade. A police
ukase issued yesterday had forbidden
children under Ia to participate. No
in the least daunted, the Pioneers
leading the hundreds of striker.
children formed their own parad,
again and again despite repeated
dispersals by the police. Harrassec
to the point of evaporation, thu
police were completely occupied will
trying to keep the swarms of dodg
ing and jeering children from sing
ing strike songs, also "verbotten'
by the cops.
Despite special police order tina
the Young Workers Communist,
League members refrain from
carrying their own banner, the ban
ner was repeatedly raised thruou
the entire line Of march.
At the mass meeting on the Com
mons, immeasurable enthusiasm
reigned. Minor, Biedenkapp, Rubin
stein, Murdoch, Beal, Keller, Daw
son, Robert Zelms of the Interna
tional Labor Defense; Alex Bail O
the Boston District of the Commu
mist Party; S. Weisman, Figarato
of the Young Workers League and
marvellous Portuguese orator Sam
aras, spoke to the tremendous thron,
from two corners of the huge plat
form simultaneously. Warningst I,
fight the sell-out now being at
tempted by the A. F. Of L. takers
Batty and Co., was the main them
of the speeches delivered.
>hen Robert Minor called upol
the workers to support the worker
representatives in the coming cleo