The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-06

S, announcing the Red Ratification
Rally in Coney Island Stadium, July
9, on the corner of 13oth Street and
Lenox Avenue, with three other cam
paign workers. when three uniformed
thugs charged on them swinging
clubs The workers who had been
taking the leaflets we're first driven
up into a building by the cops, who
then turned their attention on the
distributors, and beat them with
their clubs.
The leader of the cops was recog-
nized by Shepard as the same one
who arrested him June o. during
protest demonstration before the
Emergency Relief Bureau Office, 2Ti
w. 127th Street. On that OCCASION,
Shepard was sentenced to five days
in Jail.
Waldman Evades Challenge
Late Tuesday afternoon, no word
had been heard from the Socialist
Party or from Lewis Waldman, their
nominee for governor of New York,
in answer to the challenge issued
Saturday by Israel Amter, Commun-
ist candidate for the same office to
debate with him in Utica tonight on
the campaign issues and the election
platforms Of both parties.
Arrangements were proceeding for
Amter's scheduled campaign meeting
in Utica Tuesday night. Wednesday,
he will speak in Syracuse, Thursday
in Binghamton. Friday in Endicott,
and Saturday in Ithaca.
Ford, Weinstone at Big Rally
James w. Ford. Negro worker and
candidate for president, and w.
W. Weinstone, candidate for U. S.
Senators will be the principal speak
ers at the Red Election Rally at the
Ccney Island Stadium on July 9, the
United Front Election Campaign
committee announced yesterday.
The program will include singing
by mass chorus, including the Fret
heit Gesangs Verein and the choru-
ses of other mass organizations
Music will be supplied by the WI
r. and Red Front bands. A program,
CT revolutionary music has been pre-
pared by the Workers Music League
Two mass recitations, "Scottsboro'
and new piece entitled Red Elec-
tion," by Victor Jerome will be pre-
sented by the Proletbuhne, as well
as special numbers by the Red
Dancers"
Ford in Brownsville Tonight
James w. Ford, Communist can
didate for the vice-presidency will
speak in Dunbar Center, HerkiIner
Street an d Herkimer Ave-, Browns
vile, tonight, Wednesday evening
opening the election campaign In
that section, and in preparation for
the Red Ratification Rally in Coney
Island Stadium.
To reach Dunbar Center Hall from
Manhattan, take the B.M.T., l4th st
Line to Atlantic Avenue, change tc
Fulton Line, get OFF at Troy st.. ano
walk one block back
Thursday, Ford will speak in the
Workers Center, 81 Hudson Street
Yonkers, and Friday in Harlem at
Renaissance Casino, 138th ST., and
Seventh Ave.
Music Picnic Merged
The picnic and entertainment OF
the Workers Music League, scheduled
for July g, at Ulner Park, will be
merged with the Red Election Rally
to be held in Coney Island Stadium
Tickets sold for the affair will be ac-
cepted at the rally.
Tag Day Funds!
All workers and working class or
CARNATIONS who participated In the
Tag Days of June rs and rs are
requested to account for their boxes
Immediately to the United Front
Election Campaign Committee, so
E. 18th St., 5th floor.
Need Cars, Bicycles
All workers having cars, bicycles
and motorcycles, are invited by the
United Front Election Campaign
Committee to meet Thursday, at
pm. at Workers Center, so E. 18th
St.. to organize a parade for the Red
Ratification Rally July at Coney
Island Stadium.
Got One Months Pay
in Ii; Company to Cut
Wages 10 Per Cent