The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-08
WORKING CLASS
LEADERS HEAD
DEMONSTRATION
Doctors Will Examine
Heroic Negro Out On
Bail from Dungeon

NEW YORK. - Cheering
thousands of New York work.
ers with banners and slogans
were at Pennsylvania station
yesterday afternoon when
Angelo Herndon, heroic Negro
Communist leader, arrived
here from Fulton Tower prison,
Atlanta.
1t was the greatest demonstra-
ton of greeting ever organized by
the working-c class of New York, a
fitting reception for Americas
young DimitrofT," who still faces
10 to 20 years on the Georgia chain
gang under a sentence now being
appealed by the International La
Dor Defense to the U. S. Supreme
Court, for ''inciting to instruction,
by organizing Negro and white
workers together
Other thousands. at stations
along the route of the train from
the South. in Washington. Phila-
delphis. Baltimore and Newark,
shouted their greeting in pledge
of solidarity as the train flashed
through. bearing Herndon, Joseph
r. Brodsky, chief counsel Of the I.
L. D., and the Rev J. A. Martin.
, Negro minister of Atlanta, who ac-
companied him on the trip.
Earl Browder, secretary Of the
Communist Party Of the U.S.A.,
headed a delegation Of the most
prominent leaders of the revolu-
tionary movement, which met Hern-
don as he stepped of the train.
Among them were Clarence Hath
away, editor of the Daily Worker,
Charles Krrmbein, James w. Ford,
and Ben Gold. and many others
Plans of the International La
Dor Defense were to take Herndon,
Immediately upon his arrival, to be
examined by medical specialists,
who will determine what his physi-
cal condition is, following which
steps will be taken to restore to him
the health destroyed by 10 months
of confinement and torture in Full
ton Tower
A central meeting at which Hern-
don will speak will be announced rs
soon as his physical condition has
been determined, the I. l.. D. said.
1t will probably be held within
eight days Of his arrival.
At hundreds of meetings In Har-
lem. Brooklyn. the Bronx. Man
haitian. and Queens, speakers on
street corners and in meeting halls.
all day and Monday evening, and
all yesterday afternoon, told crowds
of workers of the release of Fern-
don, the heroic story Of the strug-
giles he led and the struggle to free
him. mobilizing the masses which
greeted him when his train pulled
in from the South.
Everywhere the DAILY Worker"
with it's headlines announcing
Herndon's arrival, was bought up
by eager throngs anxious to learn
the latest details Of the arrange
ments, eager to know when and
where he will arrive from the dun
geon from which they helped to
/ free him.
In the delegation which met
Herndon. besides Browder, were
Anna Damon and Richard B.
Moore. of the national Office Of
the LID, N. Stevens. New York
/ district attorney Of the LID, Clar-
ence Hathaway, editor of the Daily
Worker; Charles Krumbein, dis
trict organizer of the Communist
Party: James w Ford. Harlem Sec
ton organizer of the Communist
Party; Bob Minor, of the Central
Committee. Communist Party: Roy
Hudson. head of the Marine Work
ers' Industrial Union: Benjamin J.
Davis, Jr., LID, lawyer in the
Herndon case and now editor of
the Negro Liberator: Mac Weiss. Of
the Young Communist League: Ben
Gold, secretary of the Needle
Trades Workers Industrial Union.
Molly Picheny of the National
Women's Councils: Israel Amter,
secretary of the National Unen-
ployment Council, and many other
leaders of the revolutionary move
| ment.