Plans Complete For Big N. Y. May Day Parade
Plans Complete For Big N. Y. May Day Parade Socialists and Unionists To Rally at Union Square rNS of thousands of New York workingmen and women, aa well aa thousands of children, will turn...
...While all of these organization...
...Karl Borders, Secretary of the L. I. D., chairman of the Workers Committee on Unemployment...
...carfdidate on the Farmer-Labor Party ticket of Cook County...
...Socialists are urged between now and next Saturday, to lend a helping hand in whatever organization they are active, to help make this turnout greater than ever...
...will form one huge parade, another division will parade from the East Side...
...Proceeding up on 2d avenue they will be joined by the Cap Makers Unions at 8th street, continuing up, tha parade of this division will be substantially reinforced by the membership of the Workmen's Circle, the Young Circle League, and several thousand children of the Workmen's Circle Schools of the entire city, who will join at 12th street and 2d avenue, coming from the Webster Hall, where a special program will have been staged by the above mentioned bodies...
...All the organizations have issued calls to their memberships calling upon them to assemble at the various meeting points...
...This division will be joined by the unit formed of members of the International Pocketbook Workers Union, and the Suit Case and Bag Workera Union, who will form in line at 58 W. 21at street and the Millinery Workers Union who will form their division at the headquarters of their organisation at 80 West 87th street...
...Andrew t. BtemlDer, of the League for Industrial Democracy, will preside...
...Branch 1, W. C, Gives Birthday Presents Branch One, New York City, of the Workmen's Circle, recently celebrated its 40th anniversary...
...David Dubinsky, secretary-treasurer, are working actively to make their division the largest in the entire parade...
...R. B. Green, prominent physician, candidate for Coroner on the Farmer'Labor Party ticket...
...All of these groups will assemble at 11 A. M. The Unemployed Leagues which have recently been formed will rally at 240 West 14th street, where they will form a division with the unemployed groups which have been organized by the L. I. D. "Huts...
...The branch, which Is the pioneer Workmen's Circle branch, gave 850 to the national office of the Socialist party, $25 to Local New York of the Socialist party, $25 to The New Leader, $25 to the Rand School, $25 to the Jewish Socialist Verband, $15 to the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and $15 to the Tools Campaign to aid declassed Jews la Soviet Russia...
...Plans Complete For Big N. Y. May Day Parade Socialists and Unionists To Rally at Union Square rNS of thousands of New York workingmen and women, aa well aa thousands of children, will turn out for the greatest demonstration ever staged since the war days to demonstrate iheir protest against the capitalist system and its resultant evils of unemployment, hunger, war and Insecurity, and demand adequate relief in the form of unemployment insurance, the six-hour day, the five-day week, and work, instead of charity...
...Every organization has appointed active* committees and marshals to rally their membership and conduct the line of march in an orderly and organized manner...
...Other speakers will be Prank Keeney, president of the West Virginia Miners Union...
...All members of the I. L. G. W. U. in all the locals, are to assemble on the block where the I. L. G. W. U. is located, at 3 W. 18th street, at 11 A. M. An active committee of the New York Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workera is energetically working under the leadership of Abraham Miller, to rally their forces at the headquarters at 31-85 W. 15th street...
...The meeting will be held at the Wlshart Theatre, Front and Allegheny avenues, on Sunday, May 1, starting promptly at 8 p. m. parade will turn down on 7tb avenue where the membership of the Button and Novelty Workers Union will join...
...former miner...
...Locals 505, 507, 500 and 70, win start from Allen and Grand streets at 11 A. M: They will be joined by the membership of the Mineral Water Workers Union at Rutgers Square, and parading through the East Side they will be reinforced by the ranks of the Poale Zion Party, the Jewish National Workers Alliance, the Pioneer Women's organization, and the Young Poale Zion, at 2d street and 2d avenue...
...Roy Burt, Socialist Party candidate- for Governor of Illinois;*well known educator...
...Msynard C. Krueger, chairman of the Socialist party of Philadelphia, and Franz Daniel, local Socialist organizer...
...Comrades are urged to work for the success of the demonstration...
...Adolph Dreifuss, secretary of the Socialist Party of Cook County, Socialist Party candidate for Secretary of State...
...Among the items on the program of celebration was the disbursing of "birthday presents" to various sections of the Socialist movement...
...This entire division will parade up to 22d street, turn west to '4th avenue, where they will be joined by the division coming from uptown, and will form one huge working class phalanx parading on to the demonstration and meeting scheduled at Union Square...
...The Bakers Unions...
...At 40th street the iThomas and Keeney May Day Speakers In Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Pa, —The Socialist party has announced that Norman Thomas will be the principal speaker at Its May Day celebration this year...
...All in all we can anticipate a tremendous, spirited, demonstration in the cause of labor and Socialism, such as will enliven and enthuse the entire movement...
...The subject of the speeches will be unemployment and the economic and political demands of the masses...
...The parade will start at 1 p. m. from Kedzie and Ogden avenues and take the following rotate: West to Homan...
...The meeting is scheduled for 8 P. M. With these speakers: J. B. Matthews, author and teacher, chairman of the First World Peace Conference in Holland In 1028 and of the First International Youth Leaders' Council In Germany In 1930...
...Socialists of Chicago Plan May 1 Parade Matthews and Burt to Be Among Speakers at Closing Demonstration (Br • N«V Leader Corrrsaondeat) CHICAGO...
...avenue, north to Roosevelt road, east to Western avenue, north to Van Buren street, east to Ashland Boulevard Auditorium, corner Ashland and Van Buren for the mass meeting...
...Alice Hanson, recently returned from teaching in the Social Democratic schools of Germany...
...Hyman Schneid, of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Socialist Party candidate for Congressmanat-Large...
...All the above mentioned bodies from the I. L. G. W. U. down, will form one general division which will parade uptown to 40th street on 8th avenue...
...Among them will be the members of, the Furriers Union, the Neckwear Makers Union, the Butchers Unions, locals 234 and 174...
...the Painters Unions, the Dairy and Grocery Clerks Union, Poultry Salesmen's Union and other smaller unions affiliated with the United Hebrew Trades...
...This parade and demonstration, held on the occasion of May Day, labor's International holiday, will be held on Saturday, April 30th...
...There will be a great number of banners, posters and huge signs voicing the demands of labor...
...Many divisions, comprising the complete membership of various bodies, will parade under their own bands...
...Preparations for the first of May demonstration are now completed...
...Hand bills are ready for distribution in the county office, 3036 Roosevelt road...
...Arrangements have been worked out which will make this demonstration not only spectacular in size, but colorful aa well...
...Parade Plans Made A committee consisting of all the local managers of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, including the International officers, Benjamin Schleslnger, president...
...In addition, the following will also gather on 15th street, all branches of the Socialist Party, the Women's Section, the Young Peoples' Socialist League, the Socialist Consumers League, the Progressive Women of the Bronx, aa well as a general division of all Socialist sympathizers...
...They will be joined at this point by the membership of the Shirt Makers Unions, also affiliated to the A. C. W. A. Many organizations will gather on the entire block of 15th street, between 5th avenue and Union Square...
Vol. 13 • April 1932 • No. 17
