Evening star., 1933-09-10
10000 TO MARCH
|NGOTHAM PARADE
HA|L|NG RECOVERY
Event Wednesday to Be
Largest in City's History.
Johnson to Review 1t.
BY THOMAS COMPERE.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, September "a mon
ster demonstration, even greater IN Size
than the Victory parade Of 1919, signi.
flying success in the initial phases OF
President Roosevelt's program for re,
Mobilization Of the Nation, will be neio
here on Wednesday when approximately
$50 900 persons will march in Filth ave
nue., carrying thousands of Blue Eagle
banners side by side with the Stars and
Stripes. This event will bring to dra-
matte climax the campaign in this Ma
tional Recovery Administration district
for the signing of codes by employers
and consumers pledge cards by millons
Of buyers.
It will be the largest parade ever held
In this city, requiring from six to seven
hours to pass the reviewing stand on
the steps of the Public Library at For
ty-second street and Fifth avenue.
where Gen. Hugh S Johnson. N. r. A.
administrator, will watch the leglons OF
the new deal. including both employers
and workers, pass ir platoon formation
up the same route followed by the VIC
torious troops OF the American Expedi-
tionary Forces on their return from
France IA years ago.
Half Holiday Declared.
This spectacular demonstration will
give almost military tempo to the re-
covery campaign here, which has been
gaining momentum daily after the lulI
OF the Labor day holidays, despite q
tremendous number of labor problems
and many complaints against firms &C
cused of not conforming with the codes.
Proclamations declaring q half holiday
on Wednesday, which will be known as
Presidents N r. A. day, for workers
throughout the metropolitan area have
been issued by Gov. Lehman and Mayor
O'Brien, and it Is believed that more
than 100000 persons will crowd the
sidewalks of Fifth avenue along the
line of march from Washington Square
to Seventy-second street.
Maj. Gen. Dennis E. Nolan, COM
mander of the I'd Corps Area, will be
grand marshal of the parade Each OF
the scores OF divisions will be headed
by a civic, business, industrial or flnan-
cial leader, and there will be from 10
to so bands, representing military, naval
and civic organizations. The leaders
of the N. r. A. campaign here believe
that this mass observance In support
Of the new deal will dramatic and spur
the recovery movement throughout the
Nation.
Three Governors Invited.
Invitations have been sent to Gov.
Lehman, Gov. Cross of Connecticut and
Gov. Moore Of New Jersey, urging them
to attend and join Gen. Johnson's party
in the reviewing stand. Others who
will be in the reviewing stand incluc
Grover A. Whalen, chairman of
City Recovery Committee; James Fl
Hodgson of q the Department of c.
merce, who is in charge of this Fed
N r. A. district, comprising New. Yc
New Jersey and Connecticut; :
Emma Dot Partridge, chairman of
womens consumers campaign,
other civic, social, political and militia
leaders.
Following the parade, which will
gin at ! pm. and continue until S.
down, johnson will be the guest
honor at a dinner given by the N.
chants Association. At this evt
johnson will speak and give q Ia
minute impetus to the consumer {
employer campaigns, which close Il,
Friday.
The consumer campaign, which be-
gan Tuesday, was pressed by more than
$4,000 workers this week and millions
OF purchasers IN the city signed cards
pledging to buy only from firms oper-
ated under the Blue Eagle The city
wide canvass Is being made by the DEM
ocratic and Republican election ma
chimes and a committee of women
workers, Of which Miss Partridge is
chairman. The City Executive Com
mittee of the Socialist party refused the
use OF its organization and subdivisions
ID the campaign.
100000 Pledges Sought.
The committee Is seeking pledges for
100000 persons, including those who
live in the suburbs but who work and
make most of their purchases here. Re-
ports made to date indicate that the
drive will be q success and should the
signers keep their pledges rigidly there
is no doubt but that the employers who
have been reluctant to sign the code
would be forced to do SO.
Although the campaign to enroll the
employers under the Blue Eagle has not
been q complete success numerically,
since many thousands of firms in this
N. r. A. district have not signed, leaders
OF the movement contend victory for
the Presidents program has been won.
Mr.. Hodgson said several days ago that
virtually all Of the large business con-
Germs in New York, Connecticut and
New Jersey were operating now under
the provisions Of the codes, and that
completion of the campaign involved
only q mopping-up drive among the
small Business houses