The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-23
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OPEN AIR MEETINGS:
Open air meetings are held every night in
different parts of the town, and they have prov
en- quite successful although our forces, as far
as speakers are concerned are terribly limited
SHOP GATE MEETINGS.:
So far, factory gate meetings have been held
in front of Fisher Body, Chevrolet Packard, and
preparations are made to hold them in front of
other factories. In all the factory gate meetings
we find it very difficult to apply the District
plan, because most Of the units do not have
any speakers of their own, and we decided to
hold special meeting of Party functionaries
and leading comrades to supply speakers to the
units for factory gate meetings
LEAFLETS:
$4,000 Party proclamatonS are printed. $4,000
Auto Workers Union leaflets, and $4,000 general
Unemployment leaflets $4,000 stickerS, and
10000 posters aside from the language leaflets
and local leaflets by the Unemployed Councils
Attempts have been made by the units to issue
leaflets to the shop on which they are con-
centrating, but these turned out to be very poor
and the District Committee took steps to assign
leading comrades to help secure information
and draw up leaflets at least for the most i'm
portant shops in the city. So far, only in the
Ford Plant is shop paper for May First be-
ing prepared, and we are taking steps to issue
at least couple more in the most important
factories, Up till now we did not succeed in
setting up any shop committees This is be-
cause of the weakness of our Section leader
ship and the units Here again the District
decided to take special steps in concentrating
on a few big factories in the holding of shop
gate meetings, and making attempts to set up
May First committees.
Defense Corps are being organized
PERMIT:
We did not succeed in getting permit until
today. We carried on a fight with the mayor
and the police commissioner to secure either
Grand Circus Park or Cadillac Square They
tried to shove us off to Cass Park which we did
not accept This, of course is being made use
of in our campaign. We served notice that we
will hold our demonstration anyway, and are
advertising the Grand Circus Park. Our plan
of march is to go through the Negro and prole-
tartan neighborhood from the Workers Home, on
Ferry and Russell, to Grand Circus Park
OUT OF TOWN PLACES: :,
Steps have been taken to prepare demonstra-
tons in the following towns: Grand Rapids
Pontiac, Ecorse, possibly Port Huron (about IL
workers have just been arrested for their unem-
ployment activities) and Muskegon
Because of the application of our plan of work
coupled up with the objective favorable situa-
ton, we can see an increase in organizational
activity, which is reflected in steady increase
of payments of dues better attendance in the
units, although the leadership in the units and
sections is very weak We have great difficult
ties in building up our departments because of
lack of forces. new unit has just been organ
lied in Pontiac. one in Muskegon, and the basis
for organizing one has been laid in Lansing, and
Also we expect to have one in Kalamazoo and
Sagenaw.
We decided to have Hunger March on May
18th, and are making preparations for it in De-
troit as we'll as in the outlying cities. -.