The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-21
Police PrOVOcatiOn

JULIUS GERBER, spokesman for the So
y cialist Party leadership in New York
City, easily takes first place as the city's
prize hypocrite.
After doing everything in his power
together with the other Socialist leaders,
Mayor LaGuardia and the police, to pre-
vent the workers from uniting their forces in
mighty May Day demonstration in Union Square
he SANDERS the Communists and attempts to
cothe the Socialist Party virtue when he fails in
his provocative endeavor.
According to press statements given out by
Gerber for the Socialist offcialdom the Socialist
Party has voluntarily" given up Union Square
They withdrew he says, under pressure in the in
terest of peace and decency.'
But the Socialist officials are not so vrtuous
Imagine them giving up Union Square voluntarily"
Or try to harmonic this talk of "decency" with
their Shiny back-door maneuvers with the police
department against revolutionary workers! AS for
~peace'-Wel that's different; they do specialize in
efforts to keep the workers peaceful while the CAPT
talists rob them and take away their rights!
And Gerber does not shrink from an outright lie,
He says that for the first time since 1889 the So
cialist Party would not hold its May Day demon
stration in Union Square. What are the facts?
Simply this: the s. p. abandoned all May Day dem
onstrations in 1917 and did not again sponsor such
demonstrations until 193O-for period of 10 years
mass demonstrations were abandoned.
THE Communists invited the Socialist Party, and
we still invite the Socialist and AT. of L. workers,
to join in united working-cas demonstration on
Union Square on May First. We were and
ready for united action; they afraid Of the
masses; they oppose every effort to set up work
ing-class united front. This is why they a-e vol
unfairly" Withdrawing from Union Square, after
failing, with the help of the police. to drive the
Communists out They first tried, with back door
scheming to keep the Communists out and now
they continue their provocative splitting tactics by
trying to organize a counter demonstration in an
other square
They charge their ally LaGuardia with yielding
to Communist threats! Nonsense What La
Guarda yielded to was the pressure of the masses.
1t became evident through letters resolutions, tele-
grams. delegations, that tens of thousands of work
ers firmly demanded Union Square for a united
May First action. LaGuarda saw that the original
plans connected with the Socialist leaders would not
work. Now he is cooperating in the new splitting
scheme for a second Socialist-led demonstration
The statements accredited to Gerber in yester-
days papers-"rovdy Communists" etc.-are in the
language of police agent They are designed to
incite bloody police and fascist attacks on revo-
lutionary workers Gerber would have the New
York police drown the Union Square demonstration
in blood the Socialist zorgebel of Berlin drowned
the 1929 demonstration of the revolutionary work
in blood Gerber seeks also to give to the police
in Detroit Chicago and other places the continued
justification for denial Of permits for May Day
demonstrations and for brutal police attacks
This provocative, police-agent splitting policy of
the Socialist leadership must be exposed before the