The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22
DAY
TO SEE MASS ACTIONS
FOR WORKERS FREEDOM
Torchlight Parades viii
Precede Meeting in
Bronx Coliseum

NEW YORK.-In a mighty
mass welcome to heroic An
gelo Herndon tonight at Bronx
Coliseum, East 177th Street
at fremont Avenue, Negro
and white workers and intel
lectuals will commemorate
the seventh anniversary Of the death
OF Sacco and Vanzetti. murdered
working class heroes, by raising
higher the banner of struggle for
the freedom of Herndon. the Scots
boro boys, Tom Mooney and other
class war prisoners in the United
States, and Ernst Thaelmann and
the thousands of anti-fascist fight
ers facing death in Nazi Germany.
The meeting will be preceded by
a giant torchlight parade through
the Bronx, with thousands march,
! ing to the Coliseum behind the ban
ners Of their organizations. The
parade, with two bands and loud
speaker truck will start at 7:30 pm.
from 161st Street and Prospect Ave,
and st. Paups Place and Third Ave,
converging at fremont Ave. and
Southern Boulevard. The 174th st.
Neighborhood Committee, which has
been conducting the militant bread
strike in the Bronx, is the latest
organization to express its intention
! of participating in full force.
Herndon, temporarily rescued
from the Georgia chain gang by the
protests and sacrifices of the work
ing class in raising his $4,000 bail,
will be the main speaker. He will
be greeted by other prominent
working class leaders, including
Clarence Hathaway, editor of the
Daily Worker; Harry Haywood, ma
tional secretary Of the League Of
Struggle for Negro Rights; Ben
Davis, editor of the Negro Liberator
and one of Herndon's defense at
torneys; Gil Green, of the Young
Communist League, Bob Minor and
Ben Gold, Ruby Bates, key Scotts-
boro witness, will be among the
speakers. Nat Stevens, district Sec
rotary of the International Labor
Defense, will preside.
Proceeds from the meeting will
go towards expenses of the appeals
of the Scottsboro boys and Hern-
don; $4,000 must be raised for this
purpose within the next few days,
| the LID. points out.
ScottsbOro Mother in Chicago Today
CHICAGO, Aug. 81. Mrs. Ida
Norris, Scottsboro mother. and
David Poindexter, militant Negro
leader of the unemployed, will be-
the main speakers at the Sacco-
Vanzetti commemoration demon-
STATIONS in this city tomorrow at
Union Park, Ogden Ave. and RAN
dolph, and at 5lst st. and Prairie
Ave. Both demonstrations will bs
held under the auspices of the In
ternational Labor Defense and will
begin at 6 pm.
Moore Speaks In Cleveland Tonight
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. I'll
Cleveland workers will commemorate
the death of Sacco and Vanzetti and
raise anew their demand for the
freedom of the Scottsboro boys and
Angelo Herndon tomorrow at an in
door mass meeting at the Wood.
land Center, 46th and Woodland.
Speakers will include Richard B.
Moore, national field organizer Of
the International Labor Defense,
and William Sandberg, of Cleveland.
Parade Today in Newark
NEWARK, N. j., Aug. 21.-Newark
workers will commemorate the death
Of Sacco and Vanzetti with a huge
parade and demonstration tonlor-
row for the freedom of Angelo
Herndon, the Scottsboro boys and
Ernst Thaelmann, leader of the
German working class.
The parade will start at BroomS
and West Kinney streets at 6 pm.
and will be followed by an OPEN
air meeting at Somerset ST. and
Waverly Ave
After the demonstration a ban
quet will be held at So West st. in
honor of Tom Scott, militant worker
Just released after serving l8 months
in jail for his activities in the South
River strike two years ago.
The action is being held under
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