The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02
Scottsboro Mothers Get
Tremendous Ovation
from Throng
CHEER ELLA BLOOR
Thousands Wait for Pa
rade at Square
BY CARL REEVE


dred thousand workers,
massed in Union Square, yes
terday pledged their working
class solidarity in the great
est and largest May First demon
stration the United States has ever
seen. In a parade nearly four miles
long. which took four hours to pass
the reviewing stands. one hundred
thousand workers, under a sea Of red
banners and placards, with numer-
Gus bands and floats, marched from
the Battery, up Broadway, across
38th St.. arriving in Union Square at
two O'Clock.
Scores of thousands of additional
workers lined the sidewalks over the
line of march Fifty thousand
workers we're already waiting around
the Square, held back by en- army
Of rolice, before the paraders began
to arrive.
"Red 'FRONT.'"
With clenched fists appraised, two
hundred thousand men women and
children, White and Negro, repeated
after Carl Brodsky, chairman Of the
Union Square meeting. the Red May
Day Oath of working class solidarity.
Long live the united front Of the
workers" came the tumultuous roar
from two hundred thousand Threats,
Against the United front Of the
bosses and their agents. Glass
Against Glass Red Front"
Anna Schultz Speaks
Thousands upon thousands Of
workers, unable to get into the
square because of the tremendous
throngs, listened to the SPEECHES
and slogans carried through the
microphones. A high point of the
meeting was when Anna Schultz,
representative of the Central Com
mittee of the German Communist
Party, gave greetings from the
heroic German Communist Party,
declared that today in fascist Ger
many, the illegal German Commu-
mist Party is leading May Day DEM
onstrations in spite Of Hitler's
butchers. Comrade Schultz called
for a world wide fight of the work.
ers against fascism, and against i'm
perialist war.
Greatest in U. S.. Says Bloor
This is the greatest May Day
demonstration ever carried out by
the workers of the United States"
said Mother Ella Reeve Bloor, as
the workers reared cheers for the
72-year-old leader of many class
battles. Il have just received a tele-
gram that the farmers of the west,
in Nebraska and other states, are
marching today in the villages. We
pledge today we will not forget the
Scottsboro Boys. we will not forget
the heroic leader Of the German
workers, Ernst Thaelmann and the
thousands of Communists who are
fighting against fascism in foreign
lands. We pledge that we will re-
main true to these fighters under
the banner of the Communist In
ternational, and carry on the light
until the day when we free the
workers and farmers of this cour-
try and establish a Soviet OF the
United States" Mother Bloor re-
ceived a rousing ovation.
Hundreds of thousands of work.
ers and farmers are demonstrating
today throughout the United States
against hunger, fascism and War,
said Harry Haywood, representing
the Central Committee of the COM
muuist Party of the U.S.A. I'VE are
demonstrating today for the revolu-
tionary way out of the crisis winch
for four years has plunged masses
into ever deeper misery and starYa-
ton" Haywood declared that ths
thousands of Negro workers particle
pating in the May Day demonstEa-
ton was but one indication OF the
growing unity of Negro and white
workers now being achieved in the
United States" In the Soviet
Union today" he declared, "tile
millions Of toilers are celebrating
the building of socialism over enc
sixth of the earth's surface, the es-
Establishment of the workers dicta-
torship and the victory of the work.
ing class over their oppressors. Here
in the United States the workers
and farmers are seeing more clearly
that the Roosevelt government, the
MIRA, is a government of Wall
Street. of war and fascism Under
the leadership OF the Communist
Party and the Communist Internal
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