The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-02
10000 STRIKE
IN n. Y, BARRED
FROM union 50.
$4,000 March Against
Capitalist System

them out.
By noon over sixty thousand work
ers were gathered around and in
Rutgers Square.
Section after section of militant
workers organizations came up,
banners streaming, red flags flying
and slogans displayed.
Down With the Forwards.
AS they came by the yellow So
cialist Forward building they booed.
The takers and gang-leaders lodged
around the upper windows and
scowled. The doorstep of the For
ward was occupied by Little Aug
gie's" gang Of professional gun
men and sluggers, criminals, fire.
quently hired by the reactionary So
cialist and A. F. of l.. leaders to
attack workers picketing for better
wages and conditions. Solid ranks,
three deep, of police protected the
bosses agents who run the Forward.
A line of placards, 20 or more,
faced the socialist party gang from
the iron fence on Seward Park,
"The Forward Is the Ally of the
Bosses and White Guards"
Jeers For Whalen.
| Police Commissioner Whalen
drove up, fresh from the little meet
ing of 1900 held by the lingo socie-
ties at noon in Union Square, "Vet-
Grams of Foreign Wars" and "World
War Veterans" mostly city EN-
ployes forced to take part and given
days pay and day off to go.
With the jingoes, making up third
of the crowd, were the Russian
White Guards, some of them having
come from as far away as the ST.
korski factory in Connecticut. This
gang was planning to attack the
workers, but evidently lost its nerve.
When Whalen's car reached Rut-
gers Square he was recognized and
rode along in storm of jeers and
Kisses.
Many of the organizations found
the space allotted them, based on
estimates of the numbers they would
muster for the gruelling long march
to Union Square, altogether too
small.
The food workers, led by the In
dustnal Union were hunting big
ger street and marching around the
block looking for it
The needle workers, the marine
workers, led by the banners of the
Marine Workers Industrial Union;
the office workers, led by the dele
cation from the Office Workers
Union, left their assigned post and
extended themselves for three blocks
or more down Rutgers st. The
Workers Clubs, Workers Interna-
tional Relief and International La
Dor Defense and other organizations
on Hester st. north of the park, had
to extend repeatedly to the eastward
to find room.
| Great Enthusiasm.
The crowd was extremely enthu-
siastic. Loud cheers greeted each
newly arriving delegation, each BAN
ner draped truck. Revolutionary
and strike songs swept through the
ranks.
Speaking Begins.
Speaking started from a truck in
front of the Forward building. Her.
bert Benjamin, acting district or
ganizer of District 2 of the Com
munist Party, opened the meeting,
announcing the purpose and mean
ing of May 1, day of struggle for
immediate demands, for relief and
insurance for the unemployed, and
struggle against the capitalist sys-
tenn and all it's works.
Benjamin introduced John Harvey,
Representing the Young Communist
League, who told Of the struggle of
the young workers and their grow
ing determination not to be used in
the coming imperialist war, either
against their fellow wage slaves OF
otFa~ countries or against the free
workers of the Soviet Union. The
youth are organizing under the
Communist and Trade Union Unity
League banners to not be used
against their fellow. workers on the
Jobs, either.
National Negro Organizer Ford
Of the T. U. U. L. spoke on the ris-
ing tide of colonial revolts, particu-
larly of the Chinese, Indian and Ne
lgro colonies.
Louis Lyman, president of the
Needle Workers Industrial Union
spoke in Jewish, telling of the mean.
ing of May Day, of the revolt Of
workers the world over against the
terrific exploitation, the 25-cent ar
hour wage with a 60-hour week
which the bosses inflict in many
basic industries, and declared that
the workers rise against these con.
ditions, not only in Europe, Asia
and Africa, but also in America.
| The procession began shortly be.
fore 1:30. And, what a procession ?
$4,000 March.
| A close check-up indicated $4,000
in line. The marchers required All
hour and three-quarters to pass
First st. From this point in the
mile and three-quarters march, up
Pitt st. and Ave. c to 18th st. and
along 18th st. to Union Square, the
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