The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-12

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Tens Of thousands of workers
composed the revolutionary section
from branches OF the International
Workers Order, Icor, the organiza-
ton for the colonization OF Jews in
the Soviet Union, Unemployed Coun-
ellis, fraternal organizations, workers
clubs, and language organizations,
including German, Finnish, Hunga-
rian and others. All united by the
Jewish Workers and Peoples Com
n1ittee Against pogroms and fasciSm.
On Fifth Ave. the workers formed
a solid rank, 80 abreast marching
with the organization and discipline
of trained army.
Preceding them was truck with
amplifiers from which issued revolu-
tionary slogans, then forest of 200
red flags and banners of hundreds
OF workers organizations.
The thousands OF workers and
others lining the sidewalks had
watched hour after hour a streaming
procession of groups and organiza-
lions. Religious Zionist groups, Wool
en- Merchants Association, Silk Mer-
chants Association and conglomera-
ton of all manner of Jewish petit
bourgeois organizations.
Respectful to Hitler
They marched loosely many with
canes, quietly, respectfully, no noise,
American and Zionist flags in their
hands, Jewish stars on their lapels.
What banners they carried were sem
.timental, weepy. many defeatist. Few
mentioned the workers. Most boosted
of Jewish cultural pride.
A Cannon Shot
So hour after hour of this. Then
like a cannon shot after pop gun,
voice cut the air: Fellow workers,
unite and fight, against Fascism,
Hunger and War!" Fellow workers!
Communist workers. Socialist work.
erSl Only a united front OF the work
ing-class can defeat Fascism and an
| ti-semitisml
Electricity A call of bugle TO
battle after a veepy funeral train.
Cheers! Applause!
Down With Fascism."
More electricity. The Red Front
band playing the International. Two
red flags waving IN the wind Di-
rectly behind an army, a solid mass
with closed ranks, clenched fists
raised far back as the eye could see.
AS the workers came by there was a
roar like thunder: Down with fas-
cism, Free Thaelmann, Torgler and
Dimitroff" A steady, unending and
mighty chant.
AS the red flag passes, hats 60 up
with the same reverence one once
saw when the American inperialist
flag passed. Workers and others on
the side lines are nagnetised by the
electricity the revolutionary workers
bring with them. Their arms 20 up
in the red front salute. Some do it
awkwardly as if it is new expert
ence There is excitement, the thrill
Of battle in their eyes. AL around on
every ones lips: TITS the Cormu-
nists, its the Communists. Hoorayi
Applause! The demands OF the reyo-
lutionary workers and the Tnterna-
tionale swells above everything. Here
IS life-here is battle-here is the
hope against fascism, against anti
semitism.
And so from 18th ST. and Fifth
Ave. to Battery Park. applause,
cheers, the red front salute, louder.
more excited than for any other
group.
AT Battery Park, the moment the
Red Front Band came in sight, the
speeches Oh the reactionaries abruptly
stopped Meeting adjourned" they
announced hHtietily. They ordered
the singing nf she Star Spenslsd
Bannm" In esss.s tns slid renass OF
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