The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-09

on MS arrival from the FQlGon
Tower prison in Atlanta on the 6:45
train Tuesday evening. They ac-
corded Herndon, out on $4,000 bail
and facing a sentence on the Georgia
chain gang, a rousing joyful well
come such as has rarely been given
to any working class leader.
A group of outstanding workers
leaders was at the Pennsylvania
Terminal to greet him when the
train arrived = a delegation which
included Earl Browder, general sec
rotary of the Communist Party; C.
A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily
Worker; Charles Krumbein, district
Communist Party organizer; Robert
Minor and James w. Ford, of the
Central Committee of the Commu-
mist Party; Richard B. Moore and
Anna Damon, of the national Office
of the International Labor Defense;
Benjamin j. Davis, Jr., LID. lawyer
in the Herndon case and now editor
of the Negro Liberator; MacWeiss,
of the Young Communist League:
and Ben Gold, secretary of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union.
Masses With Banners
While this delegation waited on
the platform, more than 500 others
milled about the track entrances on
the level above, and over 5000 work.
ers packed the south half of the
main hall upstairs.
These workers had begun arriving
singly and in groups, behind red
banners and placards bearing the
names Of their organizations, long
before 'the LID. special" pulled
into the station. They surged
through the main hall, laughing
and joyfully expectant, anxious to
catch glimpse of the heroic young
Communist who had spent 10
months in the Atlanta jail-anxious
to show their devotion to and soil
darity with the young man who had
defied the southern lynch bosses
and courts in his efforts to save
these Scottsboro boys.
AS the train bearing Herndon and
Joseph R. Brodsky, chief LID. at
torney, and Rev. j. A. Martin, At
lanta Negro minister roared into
the station, special guards and po-
licemen shunted the crowd to an
entrance away from the one where
Herndon was to appear. But Ne
gro porter, who had read of Hern-
don's fight in Georgia, spotted the
deception and Immediately rushed
to Anna Damon's side.
Not this door," he whispered.
THAT one, over there"
Hoisted on Shoulders
AS Herndon appeared he was i'm
mediately hoisted upon the broad
shoulders of Bob Minor, and his
brother, Milton Herndon A Negro
worker appeared out of the crowd
and joyfully pressed a large bouquet
of fiery red roses into his hands.
Herndon, balanced above the mass
of workers about him. took the flow
ers in one hand. With his other
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white Panama hat, the joy of the
assembled workers reflected on his
face as-his health, impaired by his
long incarceration and tired after
the long train journey - smiled a
happy answer to this welcome.
AS he was carried up the marble
stairway into the main hall of the
terminal, black arms and white were
held up, thousands of them, as
cheers echoed through the station
and the workers sang the Interna.
tional.
! Rush to Shake Hands
S The same workers who a few
| minutes before had applauded, Mix
, Walsh and F. D. Griffin, of thu
, Harlem LID, when they predicted
how great the demonstration woult
be when the nine Scottsboro boy
would arrive in New York, raiset
\ their voices now in deafening cheers
D They rushed forward about him
eager to shake his hand, to holt
: their placards shouting welcome!
before his eyes.
: But deep voices doomed dis
: cipline, comrades, disciplined" an,
the crowd fell back, opening a patti