The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-25

NEW YORK.-Twenty thou.
sand workers passed through
the headquarters Of the Down
Town Unemployed Council yes.
terday and the night before,
doing honor to the memory OF
Michael Semen and Nicholas
Kruziak slain by an attack on
a workers meeting at Seventh
Ave, and Ave. A, Saturday
night. Yesterday afternoon a pro
cesSion of over two thousand mai ched
under flaming banners denounciAg
the murder of the workers, demand
ing the right to hold Commtr1iut
election meetings, demanding ulsua-
ployment insurance.
Down With the Boss Terror, and
their Trotskyite, Lovestoneite and
Socialist Agents." said the slogan on
great red banner at the head of
the procession. Another proclaimed:
Bricks and Bullets Will Not Stop
Our Fight For Bread" Thousands
followed along the sidewalks.
Disrupters Meet
Saturday night a Trotsky meeting
in the heart of the Russian and Uk-
rainian settlement on the lower East
Side followed several previous at
tempts of these disrupters to hold
street meetings there and pour out
their ISLANDERS on the Soviet Union,
on ali the leaders in the workers
fight against wage cuts and for I'M
employneRt selief and insurance.
Thug and White Guard Groups.
Each of these meetings dissolved
under a barrage of criticisms and
questions from the very unsympathe-
tic audience. In each of them,
gangster elements working with the
Trotskyites, and obvious White Guard
Russian elements, picked fights with
the workers at the meeting who de-
nounced the Trotsky program.
At Saturdays meeting the Trotsky
strong arm squad again started
fight when it saw the Trotsky speaker
was discounted by criticisms from
the crowd. The crowd of workers
won the battle and the Trotsky gang
fled. Then, suddenly, a group OF
men on the roof of the building
overlooking the meeting began to
hurl down bricks and bottles, and a
car load of men dashed past the
meeting at the same time, those in
the car hurting bricks,
Two Murdered.
Sen11n and Kruziak were hit by
bricks thrown from the building.
Both were taken to the hospital,
where Semon died Sunday morning
at 2 A. M. and Kruziak Tuesday
morning at 1853.
A thousand workers heard speak
ers in Ukrainian, Polish, and English
at the scene of the murder Tuesday
night.
These speakers also called to car
ry on the fight in which SemOn and
Krusiak lost their lives, the fight for
relief and unemployment insurance,
by mobilizng for the City Wide Re
lief March, Sept. 10,
Lie In State.
The relatives of both murdered
workers gave consent for the mass
funeral yesterday. The Unemployed
Council placed the bodies of Semon
and KruSiak with guard of honor
standing night and day in its meet
ing place, and threw the doors open.
Militant workers who vowed to carry
on the struggle, all moved past the
bodies in a never ending stream.
Indignation of workers in this sec
ton mounts hourly; many are join
ing the unemployed council.
Over 1000 of these same workers,
followed the parents and relatives of
the two martyrs in the funeral pro-
cession which left Tompkins Square
at pm. yesterday, with the hearseS
before them.
Garry On the Fight"
Led by the Red Front Fighters and
their Red Flag, followed by the Young
through the workers section, Ave. A,
and Second Ave, to list ST., and then
to Union Square.
Here, two platforms were erected.
George Gil, secretary of the Down
Town Unemployed Council acted as
chairman at one meeting, and Joseph
Proper, Communist Candidate for
State Senate, 18th District dover
East Side) was chairman at the
other meeting.
The Communist Party is arranging
a mass protest for Friday Eve, Aug.
Is, at 800 pm, at It'll St., and Ave A.
One socialist worker mounted the
platform and announced that he is
for the United Front of the Workers
against Boss Terror, and announced
he would Join the Communist Party.