The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-03
10000 Led BY COMMUNIST PARTY
Demonstrate HERE ON MAY |;
10000 IN new YORK COLISEUM
Mass Parade With Banners, Slogans of Militant
Labor Most Powerful Ever in City
Textile and Cafeteria Strikers Participate and
Pledge War on Imperialism; for Defense USSR

From 10000 to $4,000 work
ers, under the leadership of
the Communist Party and left
wing unions, took possession of
the streets in New York City
in a mass May Day parade
that was one of the most powerful
demonstrations of revolutionary la
Dor that New York City has ever
seen.
A drizzle and occasional down.
pours were entirely unnoticed as
some twenty-five thousand workers
gathered at the north end of Union
Square, bearing the slogans and
banners of revolutionary labor, and
fell into line. About another $4,000
workers, massed at the starting
point and along the line of march,
gave division after division rousing
send-offs.
Union Square at / p. m. was !
seething mass Of workers, contin-
ually being swelled by battalions
sweeping in from other parts of the
city. From the four corners of the
square the red banners preceded
lines of red -bedecked marchers, add
ing them to the mass of workers
and sea of banners and slogans at
the starting point.
Textile Strikers Lead.
While the Socialists" in Madison
Square Garden were engaged in
singing the Star Spangled Banner
in token Of their solidarity with the
exploiters, five striking textile
workers from North Carolina ad-
vanced down Fourth Avenue, lead
ing the thousands of enthusiastic
workers massed here at the call of
the Communist Party and militant
labor organizations.
Four bands in the line of march
played the international" "The
Red Flag" and Solidarity" A Ne
gro band led the march, symbolizing
the solidarity of Negro and white
workers, while bands engaged by
the Independent Shoe Workers
Union, the Window Cleaners Union
and the Progressive Bakery Work
ers' Club led the various divisions.
Cafeteria Strikers.
Close upon the heels of the tex
tile strike representatives followed
the District Executive Committee
of the Communist Party, the inspir-
ing leader of the working class.
Cheers mounted when, led by a
band playing the international" Z"
the fighting shoe workers, who had
organized themselves into the strong
Independent Shoe Workers. Union
of 1000 workers in a few months
time, joined the ranks Of the march
ers.
All along the line of march flut-
tered high the slogans of the mill
tant class struggle: Eight the War
Danger" Defend the Soviet
Union!" Eight for the 40-Hour
Week and Week Work." Eight
Specd-up!" against Police Terror
and lnjunctions" Against the
Treachery of the Socialist Party and
the A. F. of L. Bureaucrats!"
against Imperialist War!" "For
the Organization of the morgan
ized!" "For New, Fighting Industrial
Unions!" were some of the slogans
inscribed on thousands of placards
that made the line of march look
like an advancing tide of red on
white.
At least 1000 Young Pioneers,
who had downed their pencils on
May Day, sang and cheered their
way over the line of march, adding
their youthful voices to the more
husky shouts and singing of the
workers.
Behind a huge banner bearing
Chinese slogans, hailing the Chinese
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