The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-21
1000 Workers, Farm
Delegates Cement
Unity at Coliseum
Farmers Defy Police,
Who Are Forced to
=. Escort Trucks
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CHICAGO, Nov. Cove won't be
moved
SO sang the chorus of Negro and
white sharecroppers from Alabama
and the Carolinas before 5000 Chi
cago workers and TOO farmer dele
gates to the Second National Farm
ers' Conference here, at mass meet
ing in the North Hall of the Coli
scum on Friday evening.
The meeting was arranged by the
Trade Union Unity League and IN
employed Councils of Chicago, and
was the first example, on a mass
scale. of joint demonstration of
unity between the city workers and
the farm toilers.
Speakers at the meeting included
I. Amter, National Secretary of the
Unemployed Councils of the U. S. A.;
Alfred ITALIA, National Secretary of
the United Farmers League; Harry
Lux, State Organizer of the Farm
ers' Holiday Association of Nebraska;
/. Negro sharecropper from Alabama;
Mother Bloor Of Iowa; Lem Harris,
Secretary of the Farmers National
Committee for Action; Charles Tay-
lor, National Chairman of the Uni
ted Farmers League: and Clarence
A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily
Worker.
Joe Weber, District Secretary of
the Chicago T.U.U.L., which arranged
the solidarity meeting, acted as
chairman.
Get Motorcycle Escort
Motorcycle escorts for the so trucks
and cars which conveyed the farm
delegates to the Coliseum were pro-
vided by the Chicago police depart
ment after officials there had fatty
refused to do SO. The farmers created
stir as they passed thru the working
class sections of Chicago, ignoring all
traffic lights and cheering and sing
ing as their trucks rumbled thru
the city streets.
Higher prices for farm products
and lower prices of goods for food
for city workers." were among the
slogans on the trucks that particu-
larly drew the interest of the Chi
cago masses - and especially the
thousands Of hungry unemployed.
Override Police
you must be crazy" a police lieut.
enant in the Police Chiefs office told
Lief Dahl of the Conference Arrange
ments Committee when the latter
called on the telephone late Friday
afternoon with the request for the
motorcycle escort.
You gotta apply for a permit
day ahead of time, and then you don't
always get it," the police official
barked at Dahl.
well, then" retorted Dahl
Our caravan of so trucks and cars
viii go through anyway, pass ali
red lights and give you the neatest
little traffic jam you've had in the
loop for many year"
/. Workers Cheer
The lieutenant put down the re-
ceiver for a few seconds to consult
with Police Commissioner Allan. He
returned with the announcement that
the motorcycle cops requested would
be on tap at the Peoples Auditorium
in time to break the way through
traffic for the caravan. Arriving at
the Coliseum in body, the farm del
egates received a series of stormy
ovations from the Chicago workers as
they filed in by state delegations,
carrying plaeards.
The farmers were noticeably inn
pressed by the spirit of solidarity Of
the Chicago workers which expressed
itself in collection OF $247.4l to
defray expenses Of the meeting.
Many of the contributions came from
numerous Chicago units of the Com
munist Party. groups of unemployed
l.,nrlsnl.s az well ae IlnasS ORGANIZATIONS