The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-28

the tin boxes : MCKEE enters
his free suite at the Biltmore,
nine leg men assigned to cover
him jump to the telephones.
The most spectacular campaign ac-
tivities OF Bob Minor fail to rate a
paragraph. Although at least two
reporters I've talked to claim they
filed a full report, never word OF
the Communist Mayoralty candioate'c
dramatic reading of the Nazi letter
at City Hall hearing reached type
outside the Daily Worker.
OTHER channels of publicity have
" to be developed and quick. The
Election Street Run of the Labor
Sports Union is just the thing.
You have to see the news reel
shots of the Free Tom Mooney run
at the last Olympics to realize the
effectiveness of this medium. There
was the tremendous stadium packed
and waiting tensely for the next
event. From the angle Of the ca
mera the stands were gigantic
inert horseshoe around the cleared
field. The figures Of the half dozen
runners bobbed up Immediately in
front of the camera, speeding across
the track into the open field.
There was a stir, then a COM
motion. Before the runners were
arrested 10000 spectators had seen
the Gree Tom Mooney" placards.
Before the day was over 1t was the
main topic of conversation in TO-
900 households.
To be sure, the runners were sent
UP for six months each. They only
got out a short time ago. But no
such possibility exists in New York
where the Labor Sports Union has
evolved technique for these things.
A permit has been secured, course
mapped out. It's not long course,
only mile and half, you don't
have to be a weasel TO last it. You
dress in the Finnish Hall at 125th
and Lenox Avenue, get your placard
and run.
7 HAD a sort of wild idea about
/ doing sosething of the sort a few
years ago. Old John Macy, who was
one of the pioneer literary Socialists
in this country but turned kind OF
sour in later years, happened to dis
cover some municipal scandal that
burned him up. 1t was not a par
ticularly fragrant scandal but John
had discovered it himself and be-
came terribly proud and indignant.
He may have been a little tight. He
said he had been a Marxist all along
and it was grand to feel young again
and let's carry through the idea that
had come up earlier in the evening
apropos of something else.
There was a girl around and the
three of us were going to parade up
Fifth Avenue wearing shorts, also
placards exposing the scandal. No
body who hasn't known Macy knows
how funny this is. The old Gautier-
Mayakovsky epater les bourgeois
stuff.
We had fun dressing but the first
person we bumped into in the hall
way was a policeman. He was off
duty and not especially concerned
about the adventure. He did assure
us that arrest was a certainty. The
girl had job she couldn't risk and
Macy wasn't going to go through
with it without her. He said the
two of us would look ridiculous.
wasn't indignant enough to insist.
related this story MS a form OF
penance and to say how different
this other thing is. / repeat,
permit has been secured, a course
mapped out, dressing rooms pro-
vided. Anybody who'd like to see
Bob Minor elected and is willing
to run few blocks through Harlem
at 8 o'clock next Saturday NOV.
A. can indicate his entry at the