The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10

/ DIX WOTh6IS.
Having confessed at a pre-
vious meeting in Borough
Hall on Friday that he had
shifted the time for the use Of
Union So. to after $50 and on
LaGuardia proceeded yesterday to
evsde the issue, and place the re-
sponsibilitv of alloting hours to
John Haynes Holmes. Arthur Gar
field Hayes and Roger Baldwin of
the American Civil Liberties Union,
as a mere dispute between Commu-
nistS and Socialists, instead of dis
elimination on the part of the city
administration.
As the delegation from the United
Front May Day Arrangements
Committee waited for the Mayor to
see them, they watched Judge Pan
ken. Gerber and Vladick, Socialist
leaders, leave the Mayors Office
laughing as though they had had
good time in the inner sanctum
sanctorum. The original arrange
ments of LaGuardia on Friday were
that the Socialists and the repre-
sentatives Of the United Front May
Day Committee would meet with
him simultaneously If not to-
gether."
The tenor of the meeting in the
Mayors office was one of question
ing the right Of the 100000 workers
demonstrating against Fascisn and
War ON May First to the use Of
Union Square. Arthur Garfield
Hayes thought it perfectly absurd"
to have only one public square open
for May Day meetings. He asked,
Why not use Madison Square and
set a precedent for new place +"
Mayor La Guardia cynically sug-
gested for the future that workers
Of New York demonstrate in Van
Cor5lsndt Park, and he would place
benches for their disposal.
George Siskind retorted tn a t
Union Square belongs to the revo-
lutionary workers by its traditions.
That is the place where the revo-
lutionarY workers have always held
their May Day demonstrations.
hen Allen Taub, member of
the delegation, pointed out that the
Mayor admitted he had not lived
UP to his agreement and was dis
eliminating against the COmmu-
nists and sympathetic organizations.
the Mayor evsded the issue by say
ing That is 50, but we must adj
Just it" In bullying attempt to
scare the committee, the Mayor
threatened that if the United Front
May Day Arrangements Committee
proceeded on the line of the orig
tnsl agreement with the police de-
partment of using Union Square in
the early afternoon of May First,
he would man Union Square, %
plainly threatening to use an army
Of police against the revolutionary
workers.
During the day, the police cap
tain Joseph F. x. Day of the 18th
precinct had informed the United
Front Committee that the Veterans
of Foreign War would not use Union
Square in the morning as they
could not mobilize their men that
early" This leaves the question of
the use of Union Square on May
Day between the Socialists and the
United Front May Day Arrange
ments Committee.
The United Front Committee de-
nounced the discrimination against
the United Front May Day demon
stration in favor of the Socialists
despite their prior application, but
decided they would meet with the
committee of three appointed by
the Mayor in still another attempt
to defeat the attempts of the police
and city administration TO provoke
q fight on May Day.
The United Front Committee was
the first to file its plans with the
police for the use of Union Square
on May Day. The hours for the
United Front May Day demonstra-
ton were shifted three times BY
the police and Department of
Parks.
The members Of the committee
from the United Front May Day
Arrangements which saw the Mayor
yesterday we're George Siskind
David Leeds, Carl Brodsky, chair
man of the United Front May Day
Arrangements Committee, Charlotte
Todes, Steve Kingston, and Allen
Taub.