The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-05
POlicePlans
fOrUniOnSq.
Rejected By
Committee
" Orkers' Organizations
Rallying to April IA
United Front Meet

NEW YORK.-"We will be
glad to have the Socialist
workers demonstrate with US
on May First in Union Square
between the hours of l to 5
p. m David Leeds. speaking for
the New York district Of the Com
nunist Party declared Yesterday to
a representative of the American
Civil Liberties Union.
The union is negotiating for a
conference between the Socialist
Party leaders, the police and repre-
sent3tives of tn United Front May
DAY arrsn gements. following reiec-
ton by the committee of the police
plans to bar the revolutionary work
ers from Union SQUARE until after
$50 p. m. and on" The committee
denounced the police plans as
joint attempt BY the police, the
reactionary Veterans of Foreign
Wars and the Socialist Party lead
ers to disrupt the United Front May
Day demonstration against Hunger,
Fescism and War.
Socialist Leaders Attack United
Front
The Socialist leaders. who have
ignored the invitation of the United
Front May Day ARRANGEMENTS Com
mittee for one united front May
Day demonstration. yesterday joined
the police in attacking the efforts
of the committee to unite the work
ers in one solid phalanx on May
Day to repel the growing fascist
attacks under the New Deal the
denial Of the right of workers to
organize into their own unions, the
savsge fascist lynch terror against
the Negro masses; the mass firing
Of G. W. A. workers and other at
tacks on the very existence of large
sections of the telling population
Jack Altman, Socialist Party or
ganizer told the capitalist press
that the Socialist Party had made
its application as early as January,
while the police themselves have ad-
mitted that the first application re-
ceived for the Square was the
notification by the United Front
Committee in a letter on Feb. 9 Of
its plan for a rally in the Square
between the hours of to 5 pm.
on May Day
Attacking the committees re-
fusal to abide by the preiudiced
police decision, Altman insdver-
tently revealed the difference be-
tween the refornnist policies of the
Socialiss leaders of bowling to the
legalistic forms of the class enemy
and the revolutionary policies Of
the Communist Party of resisting
all working class decisions. in
his statement that "the trouble
with the Communists is that they
don't know their civics."
The United Front MAY Day Ar
rangements Committee Yesterday
reminded the Police Department
that it had notified the Police Com
missioner, the Mayor, the Depart
ment of Parks and other CITY Off
Gals of its plans for May Day as
early as Feb. 8, and concluded its
letter with the statement land we
do not intend to change those
plans"
Meanwhile workers organizations.
indignant at the police provocation.
are rushing their plans to elect
delegates to the United Front Nav
Day Conference, to be held in Web
ster Hall, 119 E. 18th St., on Satur-
day, April IA, at 1 pm. The Cloak
and suit Finishers' Union, with a
membership Of 5000, are sending
three delegates, together with a
cash contribution, to the Nav Dav
Fund Of $50, with a pledge of an
other 800. The Tobacco Workers
industrial Union and hundreds Of
other organizations have announced
their militant support Of the ar
rangements for a United Front
May Day demonstration.