The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-26
$4,000 MASS in
UNION SQUARE
Organized Marches To
Demonstration
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non in his mouth, with the wording
Down with the Fish Report!"
Large groups of workers began to
gather around the Square hours be-
fore the demonstration was sched-
uled. Police kept them away. At
4:30, when the demonstration was
scheduled to start. the main part of
the Square was filled. Then groups
began to arrive in an organized
fashion.
The Madison Square demonstration
got under way at 3:15 when several
hundred from the municipal flop
house. led by the Madison Square
Council of the Unemployed, and with
banners; Five Men Died at the
Municipal Flop House." Workers,
Fight for Bread" "All War Funds
for the Unemployed MA
At 1856 the dress strikers marched
in to Madison Square singing .'On
The Picket Line and with banners:
"Strike for Higher Wages and
Shorter Hours" Demonstrate for
Unemployment Relief A big mass
meeting assembled at the southwest
corner of the Square, and when a
couple of hundred food workers APP
peared marching down Madison
Avenue from the north, the whole
crowd fell in behind and formed a
parade blocks long, which marched
down Broadway, and into Union
Square. The parade was enthusiastic,
singing, shouting for work or wages,
holding UP hundreds of banners with
slogans demanding jobless relief, no
evictions, etc. The parade blocked all
side streets as it. came along and
stopped traffic.
News on the other parades, of
which there we're four main ones and
several smaller and details of the
Union Square demonstration had not
reached the Daily Worker at the time
of going to press.
Police Draw Guns.
Going west on 10th Street from
Rutgers Square at one point the cops
drew their guns in an effort to break
up the line of march. They did not
succeed. The marchers turned off to
a side street and Continued the
parade to the Square.
The Unemployed Councils oil
Brooklyn, Borough Hall, williams
burg marched into the Square, after
agitating throughout their sections OF
the city for support to the fight fol
unemployment relief. There was a
splendid spirit among all the march
ers. Then came the Downtown Un.
employed Council, with q large mum
Der of unemployed workers in it,
ranks, the Workers Ex-Servicemen'.
League and the Marine Workers In.
dustrial Union.
From Harlem came thousands Of
Negro and white workers who con.
centrated at 135th Street Leno,
Avenue. They marched south alone
Lenox Avenue to 10th Street. Their
east along l4th and Seventh Avenue
down to the Square. All along tn.
line of march they called out thu
slogans against unemployment
against lynching, for the unity of the
Negro and white workers in the fight
against capitalism. At many places
they were cheered by the worker,
along the streets. They were headed
by trucks decked with banners bear
ing slogans Among them were the
Unemployed Council of the Bron,
and Harlem, the Harlem Tenant.
League. branches of the League o,
Struggle for Negro Rights, and Sec.
tons OF the Communist Party. The
Young Pioneers we're well organized
and came into the Square singing
revolutionary songs.
Hundreds Of workers demonstrated
at ten open air meetings Throughout
the Bronx in preparation for tn,
mass demonstration on Union Square
In the lower Bronx the police die
not allow the workers to meet OF
the streets most frequented by tn,
unemployed. The meetings we're hels
despite their refusal. On 1851
Street and CORTLAND Avenue the DO
lice attempted to break up the meet.
ing but were not able to do so dut
to the determination OF the worker,
present. One worker was arrested
while disturbing leaflets at thi.
meeting.
The police then got a stool pigeor
to provoke a fight but again thu
determination OF the workers in tn,
struggle for relief prevented q break,