The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-30

lare. These workers, who have
'withstood the terror of the
militia and armed thugs of the
mill owners, have been sent
here by the National Textile Work
ers' Union to assist the Workers In
ternational Relief in gathering
funds for the starving mill strikers.
The strikers who will lead the
parade are Carl Hollaway, who is
now out on $50 bail after being ar
rested for picketing, Kermit Hardin,
Viola Hampton, an 18-year-old
striker, Raymond Clark, 10 years
old, and w. NJ. Bledsoe.
Negro Band.
The parade will also be dis
tinguished by the fact that for the
first time in the history of New
York a Negro brass band, John C.
Smiths Band, will lead the line of
march.
The workers will march with ban
ners bearing the militant slogans of
international labor solidarity. The
line of march will be from Union
Square south on Fourth Ave. to As
tor Place, west on Astor Place to
Broadway, south on Broadway to
Waverly Place, north on University
Place to Broadway and 14th Street,
north on Broadway to 18th st. and
Union Square.
Program Of Coliseum Meet.
In the afternoon at A o'clock a
big mass celebration will be held
at the Bronx Coliseum, E. 177th
Street. The program, announced
yesterday by the Ways and Means
Committee of the May Day Labor
Conference, is one of the most var
led and interesting ever presented
at labor celebration.
The Dancers Guild, under the di-
rection of Miss Gertrude Prokosch,
will appear in two original dances
entitled, "The Defense of the Sow
let Union" and "From Imperialist
War to Civil War" The music has
been especially composed for these
dances. Among the principles who
will participate in these dances will
be Harold Hecht, who was one of
the soloists in the production of
Stravinsky's lies Noces" and who
also has appeared with Fokine ard
Kosloff; Bernard Day, who directed
the dancing in the Theatre Guild
Production of Faust, and Betty
Woodruff, formerly with Won Grona.
Negro Choir.
The Dixie Negro Choir of 16
singers will sing popular Negro la
Dor songs. Among the songs will
be "Water Boy" "John Henry,"
Ezekiel Saw de Wheel and many
others.
James Phillips, noted basso, will
sing "The Pilgrims Song" the
words of which were written by Toll
stoy and the music by Tchaikovsky.
He will also sing Hats Off to the
Stoker," by Claude Arundale.
The Labor Sports Union will pre-
sent an interesting athletic program.
Among the speakers will be ma
tionally known leaders of the work.
ing class, such as Juliet Stuart
Poyntz, national secretary of the In
ternational Labor Defense; Ben Gold
and Louis Hyman, of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union;
Fred Biedenkapp, of the Independent
Shoe Workers Industrial Union; Ben
Lifshitz, acting district organizer of
the New York district of the Com
munist Party, Jessie Taft, Of the
Young Pioneers, and others.
y a
Communist Women's Call.
The District Women's Committee
OF the Communist Party of New
York yesterday issued the following
call to the working women to rally
to the great parade of the first of
May and to the mass meeting in the
Coliseum:
Working women of New York:
Women workers in the dress, fur,
industries, in the textile
in the restaurants and
in the food factories, in all the fac
tories and shops of New York, Long
Island, and New Jersey! Working
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