The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-12
1000 APPLAUD
HERMAN'S WORDS
AT HUGE MEETING
Steele, Reac tionary,
Fails to Halt Speech
(By a Worker Correspondent


scheduled outside Of the city hall in
Kenosha a monster demonstration of
workers. The great gathering of
1000 workers was organized by the
Committee of 1000" composed Of
trade unionists and sympathizers. The
occasion for the gathering was the
presentation of petition calling upon
the city council to prohibit the out-of-
town gunner who are housed inside
the Allen-A Co. from continuing to
make the mill their sleeping quarters.
The petition also called for the ex-
pulsion from the city of these thugs.
Huge Demonstration.
Slowly the Committee of 1000"
marched through the city from the
vicinity of the striking hosiery work
ers' headquarters, with numerous
flares lighting up the posters carried
by the marchers. Some of them read:
*The Gunner Must Cop "City Coun-
ell Do Something For the Welfare of
the Kenosha People" and Remove
the Gunner Menace From Our City.
At last the parade reached the
square around the city hall, where the
huge crowd of ten thousand workers
had been patiently waiting. Cheers
greeted the arrival of the Commit
tee of 1000" The strikers began to
shout their enthusiastic locomotive
l:U---N---I---O---N; U--N--I--O--N; |
UNION, which was greeted by
the applause of all workers present.
1t was then that several workers
and strikers began to urge the repre-
sentative of the Young Workers |
League of America, Samuel A. Her
words. They had previously heard
him speak at open air meetings ar
ranged by the Young Workers
League, Local Kenosha, in the center
of the downtown section of the city
The league member mounted chair
and the monster crowd gathered close
about.
Fight Open Shop.
The league speaker called upon all
those present to help the strikers pic
ket the Allen-A Co. whenever they
have the opportunity before work, dur
ing their lunch hour, or in the evening
after through with work. He called
upon the trade union workers to help
the strikers financially and to help
organize the hundreds of unorganized
workers in the mill. When he finished
speaking there was a deafening APP
plause. Many workers urged the
league speaker to again mount the
chair and continue speaking. He
again addressed the workers briefly
and called upon them to give a power
full locomotive cheer for the striking
union workers. This was done with
thousands of workers participating
and the cheer could be heard for
blocks away.
As the league member stepped off
the chair, the vice-president of the
American Federation of Full Fash
ioned Hosiery Workers, Harold Steele,
Jumped up and addressed the work
ers. He told them that the previous
speaker was not a striker and was
not called upon to speak in an official
capacity. The crowd could not make
head or tail out of his remarks, as the
league speaker had announced when
speaking that he was speaking in be-
half Of the Young Workers League.
When Steele had finished, the crowd
Of workers everywhere remained 81
lent They were extremely puzzled as
TO the cause Of Steeles statements.
Samuel A. Herman attempted again
to mount the chair, but Steele and an
official of the carpenters union held
the chair and would not let the league
speaker get up. A slight tussle for
the chair ensued in which the two Of
ficials, seeing the crowd surging about
and demanding that the league repre-
sentative be allowed to speak, thought
discretion the better part Of valor and
released their grip on the chair.
Herman Shows In Steele.
Herman told the audience how Steele
and Budenz would not allow him to
attend strike meetings and how they
tried in every possible way to hinder
the distribution of The DAILY
WORKER, a real militant working
class paper. But though the leaders
kent away League members and
DAILY WORKER correspondents
from the strike meetings, they could
not keep them away from marching
ppon the picket line together with
the strikers. Herman pointed out
how regretable it was to have leader
CT union, at such a splendid occa-
sion of working-class solidarity, at
tempt to cause disscntion by de-
nouncing the League. In conclusion,
the League speaker stated that his
faith was in the workers present and
that if the workers asked him as a
member Of the League to address
them, he would listen to them and
not to any individual who tries to go
against the wishes Of the rank and
file workers present. His remarks
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