The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-24


Boston shoe workers have diminished
by 20 to so per cent. The use Of
injunctions to prevent strike action
is increasing.
Akron Workers Plan 2 May Day
Rallies
AKRON. Ohio, April %. - The
May Day demonstration in Perkins
Square at 2 pm, Tuesday, May /,
will be followed with an evening
celebration in the huge Perkins
Auditorium at 7:3O o'clock.
Los Angeles workers Plan to
Down Tools May l
LOS ANGEL Es, April %. - One
hundred and two delegates repre-
senting 81 organizations attended
the Joint Conference for May Day,
called by the United Front Against
Hunger, War and Fascism. Tax
payers groups, A. F. of L. and T. U.
U. L. unions of steel, metal, build
ing, needle and agricultural work
ers, together with benevolent, Gull
tural, student. political and non
partisan groups were represented.
The May Day demonstration will
be held in the Plaza, North Main
and Sunset at II o'clock noon
May 1. Workers in a number of
shops are planning to Down Tools"
and march from their union head
quarters to the demonstration.
DAILY Worker Midwest Bureau
CHICAGO, April 23.-In this his
toric city of the three-day general
strike ushering in the birth of May
Day in 1886. workers will take to
the streets May First, gather at
Union Park, Randolph Street and
Ogden Avenue, 8 p. M, and march
through the loop, stronghold Of
local capitalism, to a demonstration
at Grant Park, Congress and Mi
chigan Boulevard.
From Union Park the line Of
march will go east on Madison St.
to Michigan, then south to Con-
gress and east to Grant Park.
Robert Minor member of the
Central Committee Of the Commu-
mist Party. will be the main speaker
at two mass meetings the same
night. At 7:30 pm. in the Northside
meeting will be held in Ashland
Auditorium, 1913 Ashland Boulevard,
while on the Southside a mass
meeting will be held in the Coleman
Public Schools auditorium, 46th ST.
and Dearborn. The march and mass
meetings are under the auspices of
the United Front May Day Com
nittee.
The Socialist Party's answer to a
call from the United Front Com
mittee has been to prepare a sep
arate demonstration, indoors, for
May First. In Centralia, Ill, scene
of a recent successful general strike
to demand the ousting of fore
man in a shoe plant, the Central
Labor Trades Council and two
United Mine Workers of America
locals are participating in the dem
onstration.
A partial list, which does not in
clude hundreds of other May Day
demonstrations to be held through
out this state and Indiana, is as
follows:
Illinois zeigler. City Park;
Springfield, Benld Cicero april 300
at Sokol Hall, 7.30 p. M, Robert
Minor, speaker; South Chicago, Goth
and Greenbay. 4:30 pm, bath and
Baltimore. $50 pm, parade to We
netian Fall; Chicago Heights. 22no
Street and B. & o. Tracks: Casey
Rockford, Rock Island, Waukegan
Nokomis, Virden, at the City Hall;
Belleville. Court House; Pana, Gler
Carbon, Bloomington, Staunton. In
Davenport, Iowa and Indiana as
follows;
Gary Washington Hall, 1545
Washington, 8 pm
Indiana Harbor, Yevanow Hall
Deodor and Broadway, 8 pm.
Hammond, State and Morton o..
2 pm.
Elllhart, Island Park, 4 pm.
South Bend Workers Hall, 1915
Colfax Street, 8 pm.
BickneI, Terre Haute, Princeton
Evansville.
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