The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
Plan Police Measures
Against May Day
Demonstration

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, April 10
Preparations Of Minneapolis work
ers for a giant United Front May
Day demonstration are adding to
the fears of Minneapolis bosses and
their City Council trembling at the
memory of the militant April 9Th
demonstration of 5000 discharged
C.W.A, workers who forced the city
fathers to vote relief appropriations.
Last Friday the Minneapolis Real
Estate Board and the Junior Cham
Der of Commerce held a joint meet
ing to hear report by L. S. Joseph,
chairman of the relief committee
of the welfare board, and to plan
police measures against the workers
on May Day. Joseph referred in
sultingly to the unemployed millions
as "the offal of the human grist
mill"
A major part of the meeting was
devoted to a report on the April 6
demonstration, the relief chairman
telling a shocked assemblage of
lCllb-SOQBElo dll0 ObIlEI
how members of the welfare board
we're kept prisoners" by the dem
onstrators, and finally ran like
help when the angry workers broke
in on their meeting to demand that
the board vote relief appropriations
for the discharged thousands of
C.W.A. workers and their families
"And We, Gentlemen, Ran Like
He'll"
"They gave us five minutes and
then they broke in the door-and
there they were and we, gentle
men, ran like hell" the relief
chairman confessed, and when
another member of the board OBJ
jected to his frankness, retOrted:
"You ran, too. You urged that
we hurry up and finish our bust
ness"
80 did you, and you were the
first"
That's right, I ran first" the re-
ief chairman agreed. then shifting
to a warning that Minneapolis
workers were again preparing to
demonstrate for their demands on
Nay Day:
"And now, the upshot of it all,
what are you and other good citi-
zens of Minneapolis going to do
about this situation? May Day is
coming and they'll probably stage
more demonstrations. / say to
you, you've got to stand behind
the welfare board and the police
department"
What we're asking you to do is
70 call your alderman" the speaker
continued in a request that the
business men instruct their lackeys
In the city government to unleash a
police terror against the workers on
May Day. Tell them they've got to
solidify the conservative element in
the council. They've got to fight the
demands of the radical agitatorS.
The Communists think they won
victory before the council last Fri
day. They can consider it a victory
But they've still got to come before
the welfare board, and we're going
to stand pat and we're going to
have law and order"
Council Retracts Vote Against
Forced Labor
The above statement of the relief
chairman must be considered in the
light of the action of the City
Council yesterday in repudiating its
promise to abandon the R.W.A
forced labor schemes, and its vot-
ing of $500 to buy more tear gas
and additional funds for gross of
long nightsticks for their police
thugs.
On the same day, the Minneapolis
Star attacked the approaching May
Day demonstration as Something
to Stay Away FROM" and the Com
munists for preparing the demon
stration. The editorial openly
threatened with police violence
those who do not stay away from
public demonstrations which by
their very nature threaten to result
in disorder"