The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-02
100000 Workers Mass in Union
So. In Greatest May First Meet

Tense of the Soviet Union; Hail
to Soviet China; for Unity Of
the Negro and White Workers."
and hundreds of others. Many
workers, including the veterans,
the C.C.C. contingent, the city
nurses, and others, were in uni
form.
These slogans were not only
carried on the banners, they
were shouted by the marchers,
they were thrown back by the
thousands lining the streets, they
sounded through the micro
phones from the reviewing
stands and from the depths of
the great crowd Of workers in
the square.
Will Help Boys, Says Seotts-
boro Mother
In the reviewing stand sat the
mothers Of the Scottsboro bows.
Viola Montgomery, Glen Mont
gomery, Ida Norris, Josephine
Powell, Jamie Patterson and Ma
ME Williams. Mrs. Powell,
mother of Ozzie, said that it was
the greatest demonstration she
had ever seen. ut will help the
fight to free our boys" she
told the Daily Worker. RUBY
Bates, sitting in the midst Of
the Scottsboro mothers on the
reviewing stand, said to the Daily
Worker, Il can't begin to say
what this demonstration means
to me. So many workers awak-
ened to the freedom of our bows.
When they hear of this in the
South, of thousands of Negro
and white workers, demonstrat-
ing side by side, it will have a
great effect"
The great throng unanimously.
and with tremendous outburst of
enthusiasm, passed resolutions for
the immediate enactment of the
Workers Unemployment and Social
insurance Bill, CHR 1899 which
called on La Guardia and the CITY
government to indorse the bill. a
resolution demanding the freedom
OF the Scottsboro Boys; a resolution
demanding the immediate release
OF the political prisoners, including
Mooney, Herdon. etc; a resolution
calling for a vigorous fight against
the danger of imperialist war now
being carried through by Roose-
velt's New Deal; a resolution de-
manding the release of Ernst
Ihaelmann and other prisoners of
fascist Germany from prison: and
a resolution demanding the freedom
OF the prisoners in Cuba and the
withdrawal of Caffrey from Cube bv
the .. s. tr1perialist government.
The speakers at the Union
Square meeting were: Herbert Ben
Jal1in, national organizer of the
Unemployment Councils; Norman
Tallentire of the League for Strug-
gle Against War and Fascism.
Henry Sheppard, of the Trade
Union Unity League; Rivers, of the
Steel and Metal Workers industrial
Union; Joseph Cohen, executive
secretary of the National Students
League; Siskind, of the District
committee Of the Communist
Party; Pauline Rogers, of the Ma
tional Committee to Aid the Vic
Tins of German Fascism; Cac-
chione, of the workers Ex-Service-
mems League; Rose Wortis, of the
T. U. U. L.; Ed Sullivan, of the
New York Unemployment Councils;
Ho, representing the Chinese work.
ers, M. Olgin, Of the Freiheit: Will
ana Burroughs, of the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights. Harold
Baxter, of the Marine Workers IN
dustrial Union; Ben Gold, of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union; Sanuels, of the Women's
Councils; Nashimo, representing
the japanese workers, and speakers
from the International Labor De-
Tense, the shoe and food and other
unions.
AS the large car bearing the five
Scottsboro mothers, each with a
large bouquet of bright yellow and
red flowers, passed the crowds of
workers lining the sidewalks, they
were applauded and cheered and
hailed with the workers clenched
fist salute.
Also in the car, seated beside two
of the Scottsboro mothers was Ruby
Bates. Ella Reeve Bloor, veteran
farm fighter beamed q youthful
smile from the front seat. A banner
calling for the Immediate and safe
release of the Scottshnrn bows was