The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02
RenegadeS Unite
With RefOrmiStS
in S.P. Parade
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their granostsnd in royal style. All
the red noticeable on it until some
Of the marching groups began to
arrive was the single stripe in the
red white and blue cloth draped
around it. A loud speaker jutted up
in front, facing east, and clearly
below it, painted on white card
board, the initials of the Socialist
Party radio broadcasting station,
WEVD.
Shortly after IL o'clock, the WEVD
announcer stepped up to the micro
phone, Hello. hello" he said. you
people across the street, can you
hear me2 Answer, some of you
people, answer"
Several of you people" called
back, Yeah" and 20. K" Then the
S. P. announcer turned the mike so
that it faced the Paramount news
reel truck, about fifty feet to he
north of the stand. e.
II see the Paramount boys are
here" The Paramount boys whis-
tied and waved back to him.
Just q little free publicity, very
good these days. the announcer
/ concluded, with a broad smile. His
voice, suave and oiled, drolled out
above the listeners. Life is more
real and basic to them; they haven't
time to worry about free publicity.
/
At the main gathering points of
the S. P. parade, the various groups
did not begin to assemble until
shortly before noon. One spot of
particular interest, the S. P. and
renegade papers had announced,
was goth ST., from Filth to Seventh
Ave" where the I. w. w, the Love
stoneites and Trotskyites were to
assemble.
Mass of Renegades-30O
We walked down Seventh Ave, to
goth St. No sign of a group in
sight Only the occasional figures
of passing pedestrians. We walked
down to Sixth Ave. There too, no
sign Of life. Finally we stumbled
across the united and solid" ranks
of the three groups pitiful total
Of perhaps three hundred, includ-
= ing wives and children. The only
workers in evidence here we're some
of the marine workers marching
with the 1. w. w, holding their
intellectual, almost absolete slogans
in the air.
At the Rand School,, main
gathering point for the S. P pa
raiders, there was far more color;
many more people were gathered.
When a Daily Worker reporter,
pencil in hand, began to speak to
@ Negro S. P. worker now en-
ployed at c. w. A. work, hys-
terical Socialist woman official
clutched at his notes and tore
some of them. The Negro worker,
| who, when he last had real job
was q mechanical draughtsman, he
told the Daily" reporter. In an
swer to questions he said that "On
the whole, I'm not in disagreement
with the International Labor De-
Tense. I believe that they handled
the Scottsboro case with sincerity
and with loyalty to the interests Of
/ the Negroes" Other members Of
the Socialist Party with whom he
had spoken, he declared, are also
fairly in sympathy with the I. L.
D., especially its handling of the
Scottsboro case"
Vilifies Daily Reporter
After a few more questions, the
woman with the s. P. badge rushed
up, yelling, You dirty rat, you dirty
Communist, why don't you go into
our office if you want to ask ques-
tionsl You dirty"
AS several S. P. toughs menaced
the reporter, other workers sprang
to his side to aid him. When he
walked off the Daily Worker re-
porter shouted to the Negro worker
and to all within earshot, Read the
Daily Worker tomorrow for your
interview"
The needle trades workers gath
cred on 18th st. and Fifth Ave,
outside of the headquarters of the
International l. d les Garment
Workers Union. Then this, together
with other groups, started on its
line Of marcia line Of march
much smaller than that of the
United Front May Day Demon
stration, In fact, the S. P. march
travelled in a small arc completely
contained within the far greater
arc of the United Front paraders.
Happy Days Are Here Again"
In the S. P. ranks, aside from
the presence of groups of renegades
from Communism and outlived and
lifeless groups, were apparent all
the contradictions of this most
heterogeneous united front" ever
assembled in New York City. Mayor
LaGuardia and other city officials
did not participate on this acca-
sion, as they had on others, With
the expressed invitation of the
S. P. leaders.
But the workers who lined the
streets must have sensed the mock
cry must have been indignant, at
the S. P. and right-wing union
bands marching down the streets
playing THE Stars and Stripes
Forever" and Happy Days Are
Here Again (This second Jazz
melody turned out by Tin Pan
Alley as part of the big business
and demagogic prosperity prop
Uganda campaign. was played it
will be remembered, by a group of
southern lynchers who burned a
Negro boy to death about year
ago.
AS We cut crosstown from Seventh
Avenue to reioin the solid, colorful
and heartening ranks Of the United
Front May Day Demonstration, a
red traffic light cut the end of the
S. P parade in two. There was only
a bit of it left=nerhans fifty in