The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-26
NEW YORK.


In face OF the Roosevelt administrations attacks upon
the conditions OF the workers. the Communist Party and
diverse other organizations have joined hands in great
May Day parade and demonstration AS each day goes by
the urgent necessity for genuine unity and soil
darity on the workers holiday is becoming evident
The executive of the Socialist Party has refused to
enter upon this sincere united front of all labor forces It's
executive secretary julius Gerber has written to the police
making with them and suggesting that the
police keep the Communist Party from coming to Union
Square,
He has added to that namy by personally urging
that the police department act the arbers of the place
and time at which workers organizations shall parade and
meet on May Day He has furthermore stated that The
Socialists should haze control the streets of Ne
York; neither should the COMMUNISTS The police are the
ones who should control the streets of this city,"
The committee of four representing the United Front
May Day Committee who present at the conference
with the police at which Gerber madet his statements
pressed their indignation today written statement
denouncing Gerber's attitude.
The committee, composed of Carl Winter of the I'm
employed Councils Louis F. Budenz of the Conference for
Progressive Labor Action Andrew Overgaard the Trade
Union Unity Council and A. the Industrial Work
ers of the World and the Provisional May Day Committee
were called to the Office of Deputy Police Commissioner
Walsh.
There they found Gerber, who was called into confer
his request that the Communists be excluded from
Union Square The committee of the United Front May
Day Committee insisted that permit for Union Square
had been written for far back February 49, They
also emphasized that their line of march the parade
had been outlined we'll before the Socialists had gotten in
touch with the police and pointed out that Gerber had
set his parade for much the the of the
United Front parade.
They further insisted that workers organizations
should settle their problems among themselves and
that the police could not be the judges of such dispute
Gerber however, persisted in attacking the Communists
to the police praising the police profusely for ther
generosity in letting the Communists Union Square
in the past He contended that the Park Department was
the agency that should grant permits for Union Square,
and stated that he had secured such permit Therefore
the United Front May Day Committee he asserted had
right to Union Square.
Asked point-bank by the United Front committee if
he and his associates would confer the question instead
of making the police the judges in the case Gerber obsti
natey refused to do He reiterated that the police
rule the streets that the Socialist Party consd
GRAFTON because had alCays cooperated h the police
and had not attacked them"
Under pressure, he finally agreed reluctantly ito try
to get the Socialist Party Committee together discuss
the question with committee of the United Front
Il stand by the letter which sent you," Gerber told
the police He kept on appealing to the police to be the
arbiter
The representatives of the United Front committee
finally compelled Gerber promise to call meeting of the
Socialist Arrangements Committee to take up the United
Front proposals of the May Day Committee
The S. p. City Central Committee lUiH meet tonight.
Socialist workers and locals urged to send kilograms
to the city committee urging to repudate the actions of
Gerber and adopt the proposals of the United Front Com
mittee The proposals united front May Day dem
onstration the basis of program of immediate struggle
If there are to be separate parades they should
Union Square IN United Front meeting.
Statement by Committee
The statement issued by the committee from the
United Front May Day Committee reads follows:
"We called in by the police department to discuss
the request of JuliI Gerber the Communists