MOST IMPRESSIVE LABOR PARADE IN NEW YORK HISTORY MARKS MAY 1ST
Most Impressive Labor Parade in New York History Marks May 1st ly Gertrude Wall Kiel* /*\K(fANIZKU labor marched on Tuesday, marched in the largest Socialist and lubor parade the city has...
...But take it fasja me—and cheek back with the movies (if the theatres don't also the Stalinist united front>-4hat reviewing stand was on«J?lazNf conflagration of RED, and the Socialist and Young Socialist Banders—not to mention the I.W.W...
...That Marching Psychology I really felt sorry for the.girls...
...Every organization in the great United Front demonstration had pledged itself to unite upon those things upon which all were agreed—workers' unity, war upon war, fascism and upon capitalism—and every organization keDt its word...
...By persisting in their methods of alienating everyone who continued the "bourgeois ideology" of doing their own thinking the "official" Communists challenged comparison between the Socialist and trade union United Front demonstration, and their own...
...The old Wobbly spirit still lives...
...They were just ashamed...
...While I'm only commenting on the labor division, I want to say that the most outstanding banner in the parade was the huge "Down With Fascism" sign carried by the 2nd A. D. of the Bronx...
...New York never saw such a sight before in all its born days...
...This was their first parade, as Jt waa for practically all of the girls in line...
...And they're a younger crowd, with a substantial proportion of women and girls...
...Them, when the unions are big and strong and powerful, we become sort of poor relations...
...It was plainly a psychological ordeal for them...
...Sheer Fere* of Numbers Of course, as pointed out by their nearest friendly rival, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, they had several obvious advantages...
...The cutters had a larger division than in any previous parade...
...There were speakers, too...
...According to a total check of the' estimates made by the marshals in charge of each union's division, there were in the union section alone 50,000 workers, members of regular labor unions, in line with the Socialists, Workman's Circle, I.W.W., and other ulied groups...
...One of the old-timers pointed out to me an old Amalgamated banner from which the words American Federation of Labor had been ripped years ago when the Amalgamated was formed as an independent union...
...A small group of unemployed members remained in the march behind a sign, "Unemployed Members, RFWU...
...The Celluloid, Catalin and Galilith Workers' Union was probably the smallest union with the largest name...
...I know that at the close of the parade we simply had to drop people at the subways and tell them to go home because there simply was no way to route them to the "square" for the meeting...
...The Polish-Russian Local 103 had the only accordion orchestra I've ever seen or heard of...
...But at 3:06 a speaker from the Communist platform . announced thatHhe Socialist parade had finished Ave minutes before...
...We prepare the way for a workers' world of peace and plenty for all who toil...
...Just narrow lanes winding in and out of the park...
...Amalgamated May Day celebfetjons were held in Newark, New Brunswick, Passaic (where Gey* flield people also held a meeting), Elisabeth...
...And as they passed the stand, as they sang the International with raised fists it was a sight that no one will ever forget...
...Not the least of the colorful divisions was that of the Wobblies...
...AH they knew was that they were marching on a historic labor and Socialist holiday to' express a sense of labor solidarity and progress...
...But there is an even more significant motif underlying this .underplaying of the really revolutionary forces of labor aa opposed to this police and newspaper exaggeration of Communist strength and virility...
...The pantsmakers, the kneepants makers and the vestmakers must have had their total membership in line...
...Egg Harler, Poughkeepsie, Peeksklll, Utiee, Buffalo, Rochester, ' Unlontown, Gallitzin, Pa.: Philadelphia, Pa,* St...
...Many of the girls dropped out because they were ashamed to march...
...There) wasn't as much singing or dancing or shouting as in the young Hocialist and other divisions, but there was a look of solidity, of intelligence, of trustworthiness about the line that bespoke the years of struggle and of building that had gone before, and the period of tenacious holding what they hud built, during these terrible years of unemployment and suffering...
...We'll have to make other arrangements next year...
...and fascism in general...
...I couldn't help wondering what it was that made some people suffer tortures if called on to make a public expression of their thoughts or feelings...
...Leo Krzyckl, J. B. 8. Hardntee, Chas...
...Headed by Frank Crosswaits as Grand Marshal who bore himself like a conqueror to the cheera of thousands, he was followed by the beloved Max Winter of Vienna and the Executive Committee of Local New York...
...Local 89, Italian Dressmakers, alone has a larger membership than the entire New York Joint Board of the Amalgamated...
...1 know the shirt* makers had a grand banner...
...They art new to the union, and the idea of marching waa surprisingly embarrassing to gem...
...They knew it deep in their bones, [where • it had bean bred' years before...
...ranka waa there an attempt at more elaborate satire and thunderbolt in visual form, but even here the "economy of poverty" had been carefully (and necessarily) adhered to...
...By next year, with the new spirit in the unions and the educational work so many of the unions are conducting, these fledgelings will be vigorous proponents of unionism and the fight for a workers' world...
...Socialist Party, Or anarchists, bolshevilki, trouble-makers—depending on the times and on what language happens to be the most, popular with the cynjcal group...
...Making periodic announcements of the progress of our parade...
...I'll have to make inquiries among my neo-communist friends...
...It broke into all the newspapers...
...Saw nothing startling in the fact that the Sta{inist Communists marched alone, deserted by all their erstwhile lifts (except some intellectual neo-Marxists and crack-brained though sole artists who see so much more opportunity for self-expression and serf-aggrandizement behind the sickle and hammer than with the gtfrkers)~-these former allies, not so strong in numbers but ideologically, important, marched in a real united front with the Socialists/ misleading the workers The newspaper reporters and photographers took a look at the long but extremely narrow strip accorded by the police to the Socialist and labor demonotration at Madison Square Park and didn't apparently take this, trouble to find out that physical conditions make it impossible to :he trouble to find out that physical conditions made it possible to father a huge-appearing crowd in the isthmus between up and down own, that tens of thousand were shunted away by the police at the subway stations and tens of thousands of others couldn't pierce the lease wirongs who blocked the park lanes leading to the speakers' stand...
...I may have missed some inter* eating sights...
...He may have been color-blinded by the hash of stripes in the Innumerable American flags carried by members of me own contingents in their trek to Union Square...
...Painting the Town Red—in . White The painters/ union had the most spectacular signe unit in the labor division...
...At their head marched the Marine .Where You Con Get ' Thomas' Jttdbo Speech We . are informed by Norman Thomas that the National Broadeasting Company announcer, who Introduced him on the occasion of his May Day broadcast against Chancellor Dollfuss'," was ordered by the higher-ups of that organisation not to permit the announcement that copies of the speech could be secured from the National Headquarters of the Socialist "Comrade Themes asks oa to report that copies are available, end in he severed lor ten peats from the Party Office, lee Randolph Si, jfjljeojkftv Transport Workers' Industrial Union, husky longshoremen in working clothes, beamingly happy to be in line on May Day with comrades and fellow-workers in the struggle for liberty...
...I believe that a combined demonstration of all worklngclass forces on May Day would mean even more and would ba wonderfully effective In forcing concessions for labor...
...At least so the pressors told me when I asked them why they should be so tired' when they were used to standing all day in the shop...
...But, after all, the most colorful, the most thrilling of all the divisions was that of the Socialist Party...
...Most Impressive Labor Parade in New York History Marks May 1st ly Gertrude Wall Kiel* /*\K(fANIZKU labor marched on Tuesday, marched in the largest Socialist and lubor parade the city has seen...
...Ben refers to the time-honored custom used by the police officials in "shaking down" the bankers who hold the purse strings by playing up the shivers and shudders of vthe red menace as May Day approaches...
...Louis, Chicago, Nassaun County, L. I. Among speakers at the meetlntri ware Joaatth SchloilbSSE...
...A solid phalanx of 5,000 men in white overalls and caps made quite a splash in the spring sunshine...
...the capmakers with their uniform caps...
...if t leave anybody out here it means execution at sunrise...
...By way of comic relief, I want to mention that the Cdmmunists announced at five minutes after 3 o'clock that the Socialist parade had ended just five minutes before...
...But after all is said and done, the real performers were the marchers and the demonstrators—they who held up their fists and pledged themselves to fight for the better world that is in birth...
...mimm a social myth s> What the secret object of the newspapers was can only be surprised...
...The padmakers — first section marching—were composed of white and colored girls evenly divided, each one of whom carried a large flag...
...Rexy Plays the International The pantsmakers had the best band, and the band that marched with the big shots up front was the worst...
...meh, meh...
...It's true, their repertory was not very large, but, then, none of the bands seemed to know more than three songs at the most...
...10,000 Leather Workers Strike SALEM, Mass...
...Well, maybe it wasn't the worst, but it was plenty terrible...
...Next year It will see a greater, more beautiful, more menacing one —menacing to the forces of reaction and fascism...
...many speakers—Norman Thomas, Max Winter, William Karlin, Abraham Cahan, James Oneal, Charles Solomon, Jay Lovestone, J. P. Cannon, I. Hamelin, William M. Feigenbaum, Abe Miller, Joseph Baskin, Jacob Panken, Frank Crosswaith, Ethel Schachner, David Lasser, Mrs...
...The Socialist Vanguard, marching in machinelike precision, headed by the bearers of a forest of red flags, the boys, and then the girls, in blue shirts with red ties...
...Especially the Pilgrims' Chorus, which made me feel like reaching for a walking stick and humping my back like a poor old peddler...
...Hundreds of them dropped out and sneaked away— men as well as girls...
...By the way, if anybody was puzzled by this, or thought that women were going back to bust pads and bustles, let me inform you that these pads are for the adornment of the male sex exclusively...
...Then leading the hat and cap people then were Max Zaritsky and Specter...
...Next year—well, we'll do a few things differently next year...
...A story of the labor divisions is told by Gertrude Weil Klein in another section of this paper...
...But I am also aware that no sueh union can be effected as long as the Stalinist forces maintain their disruptive, their sectarian, their vindictive, their maliciously mendacious, their reactionary, their antl-workingelass attitude, expressed in word and deed against the Socialist and labor movement of the world...
...It is thai capitalism realizes that the real danger to its existence lies in the potential power of the labor forces, once they art aroused and made more class-conscious by dint of Socialist teaching and example and by contact with Socialists on the picket line and in demonstrations...
...There were the I.W.W., the farfamed Wobblies, colorful, rugged, untamed, many in them in uniform --¦the uniform of workers, soiled Overalls and dungaress...
...Abe Cahan, stalwart despite his years and snowy head, also walked the whole- distance in the Forward Association ranks, flanked by B. Charney Vladeck...
...more reY letters and photographers were assigned to them and their pro(| nnciamentos were much more punctiliously observed and recorded, (go Dillinger gets more attention than Einstein...
...We raise the flag of peace...
...It reminds me of Dollfuss' continued broadcasts during the fighting in Vienna, informing the people that the Socialist leaders had fled, when they were fighting side by side with the rest of the Viennese workers...
...The labor division was by far the most impressive.one, if not the most colorful and spirited...
...As an old newspaper man myself, I know that the Communists ' have succeeded in building themselves up into a "story...
...One organization that won wild acclaim was the Forward Association, headed by a banner borne by M. Sood, who seemed about to burst with pride, while alongside the red banner marched the lionlike veteran of fifty-years of Socialist battles, Abraham Cahan surrounded by his colleagues of the Forward staff...
...They marched as though they realised that they wtr* THE labor movement, Hod about said vllllned by the propagandists of both the left and right, aateiled by anemia* speaking in ta» name of one form of reaction or the I Other, but nevertheless the historic, fighting labor movement, knowing its past and looking to a future of struggle and achievement for themselves and their children...
...More attention was paid by the press and the movies to their goings-on...
...But there was Dubinsky, the president of the biggest union In the city, maybe in the country, and not too big to march in the May Day parade with tens of thousands of his fellow unionists...
...Now I ask all of you who waited for the last contingent to march in at close to six o'clock, I ask you who didn't start on your long trek around town till 3 o'clock, can you believe anything those Communists say...
...square . Apparently the reporter for the Daily Worker was as blind, though perhaps, for different reasons, as the capitalist writer*/ He referred to the fact that' the only red on the reviewing stand was in the red, white and blue flags...
...Well, they were from Roxy's, and they had never played the International before...
...We launch a mighty demonstration for bread and work for all...
...And what were they doing...
...Only in the Socialist and I.W.W...
...Most of them wore high-heeled shoes and they were ready to collapse long before the parade got under way...
...in the second year of the feign of sinister and murderous fascism in Germany, and on the very day of the proclamation of an even more sinister fascism in Austria...
...There were school and college boys and girls with books under their arms...
...The vast crowds cheered them...
...Despite the ballyhoo they received from the capitalist press, despite the fact that they were given the far more adequate Union Square, despite their utmost efforts, their parade had finished its march into Union Square three hours before the Socialist and trade union parade had finished Its march...
...The biggest kick in the whole day, for me, anyway, was the sight of David Dubinsky leading the march...
...Jt was their day...
...There were the two "opposition" Communist parties, the so-called Trotskyites and the, Lovestoneites, with their auxiliaries of schools, youth organizations and cultural organizations...
...It was their celebration...
...And marching with them by the tens and thousands were the new members of the unions—keen and Vivid, not quite aware of what it was all about but curious and eager- to learn...
...The Workmen's Circle was there, with its schools and its great Young Circle Clubs...
...Another Wobbly battalion carried high on a standard a pair of overalls with the information that they were available for J. P. Morgan whenever he got ready to do some useful work...
...And while all this was going on, across the street from the platform in the building of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Charles Solomon was arguing an appeal against the recent conviction of Jack Altman and Alex Retzkin for bearing red flags...
...One man said, he'd marched in May Day parades for thirty-six years...
...Traditionally the home of labor and HMsfHt demonstration, the Square was handed over to the CommuEibf a subservient police force, anxious no doubt to build up a leDE «f "red" frightfulness in order to aggravate an alleged problem ItVsaed lustre on the police department's brilliant handling of that ¦Bttem...
...Madison Square's Impossible All in all, it was a grand and inspiring day...
...Elaborate posters and floats that might have served to liven up a Ziegfeld Follies production characterized the one demonstration, as opposed to the inexpensive simplicity, but telling vigor, of the revolutionary banners carried in the Socialist and labor march...
...The speeches were important...
...An insignificant group, nobodies, with* out prestige, without influence without weight in the community, Ben, beh...
...Nothing dramatic in jjg magnificent rally of the genuine hosts of labor assembled behind eal revolutionary slogans and proclaiming the awakening of New fork workers to the necessity for struggle AGAINST war and fascism, tbs open.shop and company unionism, starvation and degradation in It'midst of plenty, struggle FOR the 30-hour week, labor solidarity ind a Socialist world...
...The pantsmakers' band looked so unfamiliar that I couldn't help speaking to them...
...And the kitted, barelegged Highland bagpipe band with them also made quite a hit...
...Of course, it's no new» to us Socialists that when unions an young and struggling, they turn to the Socialist Party for help...
...v IsQe united front referred to—so different from the united front ¦dlloclsiists and organized labor at Madison Square Park—won another EBtty noble ally on the afternoon of May Day and the next morning...
...otherrise they could have discovered that at the very time the Communist kairman announced (at five after three) that the last Socialist pakder had just filed Into the "other" square, signalling the end of the leetlng there, a number of contingents were just starting their long )urney all 'round town, and that three hours after the hour some of be papers (apparently getting their news from Union Square) gave pi the time of the end of the parade, divisions were still swinging in find filing past the red flag-draped reviewing stand...
...A dinner will take place at 6:80, with discussion to follow...
...There were anti-fascist organisations, libertarian organizations— organizations of every radical and revolutionary point of view, each of which was represented in the speaking on the platform, the only test that was applied being good faith and a willingness to keep a pledged word...
...Maybe it explains the Communists and why they can run more and bigger and better parades than anybody else—or could, before this year...
...The vestmakers, I imagine, had the most old men...
...There were the Socialist Zionists, the Jewish Workers' Alliance, and other related organizations...
...Ten thousand leather workers m Salem, Lynn, Danvsri Woburn, and this city went out in a general strike thia week, shotting down 39 factories in these five cities Renumbering the .disorder staring the last leather workers' strike a year ago, when the hiring of thugs by the Industrialists and the endeavor to import scabs resulted In violence, workers .In the tanning communities regarded the mobilisation by police authorities of emergency forces as significant, But teag Hnes of pickets surrounded mo*3 o! ths 86 factories at fwe o'clock in the morning...
...I don't know...
...CONFERENCE WILL DISCUSS TEACHING LABOR ECONOMICS The New York City Conference on Workers' Education will hold it* next meeting on Wednesday evening, May 9, at 71 Irving Place...
...all of which makes for color and spirit...
...There were floats and signs galore telling the world what the marchers thought of Hitler and Mussolini and Dollfuss...
...Have we had that many ? Anyway, there was a nice sprinkling of heavy beavers (beards, in case you don't know) and they marched all the way...
...Now York *ff|r btfoH wae so rubricated...
...And there were the almost endllss lines of labor marchers...
...The Greatest May Day (Continued free* Page One) end auxiliaries—not forgetting the Vanguard* and Yipsels—fraternal bodies, anti-fascist organisations—all, all were there...
...They are shoulder pads and go into men's coats to give them that he-man look...
...The executive committee, headed by Eleanor O. Colt, acting chairman, has arranged, for a discussion of the problem involved in teaching labor economies, the question of how far workers' schools are meeting the need through their program of workers' education, especially in economies and labot problems, and related quest lorn pi .materials, training of teachers, etc The Editors Comment Brftf sinister and significant united front between the administration I mM police, the la-de-da liberals and the fire-eating Communists in IsSm to the use of Union Square May Day came in for some attenHjEbmn this column last week...
...A roll call of the marshals of the labor division in the parade reads like a blue book of the labor move* ment in the city...
...Yes, it was a pretty swell day...
...But could they play...
...One of these days I'll print a penetrating analysis by that radical war-horse, Ben Blumenberg, of the reason the police and the Ham Fishes "build up" Communist importance by magnifying the "red scare," by "guarding" public buildings, by mobilising machine guns and gas to protect a city in nowise endangered, by multiplying the numbers actually Vhgaged in the more publicized but much less vital events engineered by the so-called lefts...
...The cohorts of the so-called "reds" (the use by the capitalist press of the term "red" to apply only to Communists, who really should be called "blacks" because of their reactionary and opportunistic policies, harking back to the black international of Bakunln, is one example of the same tendency) the ^capitalists know how to herd them along, led as they only too often are by agents provocateurs and government spies: but real labor unions torn away from their adherence to pure-and-simple policies and rendered class-conscious—that's an...
...Maybe it's glands...
...In the Amalgamated division, the smaller locals made, proportionately, the best showing...
...ashamed of whom...
...The capitalist commentators saw noth0g significant in the march of almost five thousand members.of the brotherhood of Painters, attired in white overalls and caps and parIcipatmg in the demonstration for the first time in this generation's tjatory of the building trades unions . . . vociferous and colorful in*station of the fact that the labor movement is becoming aware of lay Day and its implications and is drawing nearer to the Socialist ¦T The seekers after sensation saw nothing in the fact that tens jjf thousands of real workers marched in the Madison Square Park , jorade, representing real and not paper unions...
...And then a glorious burst of color...
...In consideration of the cuts in teachers' salaries and the paylees furloughs ahead, the teachers are now whimsically informed, by the committee, they won't have to make any further "voluntary" contributions, If they went to, however, they .may still give shoes, clothing, glasses or other necessities to poor children...
...and at the head the grizzled veteran officials of the organization...
...Primoff, Louis Waldman, Julius Hochman — representatives of all the organizations of every shade that participated...
...i'ltn eapiuiiit reporters, always so Under to big business, must have been deeply moved by the thought of the huge sums spent to decorate the Communist parade that wended its way to Uuion Square...
...Maybe that's what Gilbert and Sullivan meant when they said that every baby born alive was either a radical or a conservative...
...Apparently, these "reporters" forgot to scout around town...
...This Wat labor...
...in the face of unspeakable persecution and outrages upon political opponents and outlawed racial minorities...
...But that awareness can't keep me from dreaming..,, SILK STRIKE ENDS EASTON, Pa.—The strike at the Jacwin Silk Mills hare ended when a forty-hoar work-wtok was won by employes Huge Throng Pledges War on Capitalism THE following resolution was unanimously passed by the huge mass meeting of the May Day Labor Conference at Madison Square Park on May 1: "In the fifth year of the depression that was the inevitable breakdown of the system of production solely for capitalist profit...
...The way they played the International, it sounded like a pretty hot number...
...By the way, leaflets quoting Dollfuss were distributed to the Socialist fighters on the barricades—by the Communists...
...There must have been nearly 1,500 at the •tart, but we suspect some of thorn got lost on the way...
...The women's neckwear makers with their sheer, snowy frills...
...It continued for three hours after the announcement) And it appears that many capitalist papers took their information of the Socialist demonstration from veracious Communist sources rather than send,Jng their reporters seven blocks north to find out* for themselves...
...Standing around for three hours will knock anybody out...
...TEACHERS MAY STOP SHELLING OUT, NOW THAT PAY IS CUT Teachers and other employes of the New York Board of Education have voluntarily paid out over $4,000,000 since the school relief fund for needy children was established in October, 1930, a report of the school relief committee this week, revealed...
...It will be their triumph...
...This was also the first year the Amalgamated had a showing of women in the parade...
...You know the attttude : after all who are we...
...that thousands waited in Union Square for the labor parade inaware of the changed meeting place (I talked to almost a hundred tuck workers myself) that thousands went to the neighborhood of Tamna)»y Hall, misled by the clever but unscrupulous leaflets broadcast by :he Communists and headed "Socialists and A. F. of L. Members, Mttch to the United Front Meeting at Union Square...
...I didn't see It It was pretty herd to march and watch at the seme time...
...Also calling people-to assemble at 10 o'clock in the morrfing for a parade which isn't scheduled to start until 1 in the afternoon is poor management...
...tortured by hunger, unemployment, exploitation, the growing menace of company unionism, constant assault upon their liberties and .an ever-growing arrogance of the exploiting class of finance and industrial capitalism, , "We, Socialists and trade unionists, in May Day mass meeting assembled in Madison Square Park in New York, declare a ceaseless and relentless war upon capitalism—the cause of all the ills that afflict the world today...
...V The Italians helped a bit by playing opera, but it wasn't so easy to march to...
...Did they once dance and shoot and sing in their May Day parades, or did" they always display an almost Nordic assurance and calm...
...By sheer force of membership, they outnumber everyone else...
...Her* were the city's earnest, sane if somewhat settled, determined if no longer young, workers...
...The Radio Factory Workers' Union, which had a large delegation waiting to march, received word that a strike had been called against some firm and most of them had to return to their headquarters for strike duty...
...That la, it was a surprise ns, who are not at all settconscious about showing our colore in public...
...The only organization that were missing were those associated with the "official" Stalinist Communist party- urho characterised their "united front" pleas with their usual tactics of villlfication and denunciation of everyone end all organisations that would not take dictation from them...
...and what made other people happiest when they were making spectacles of themselves...
...Madison Square is impossible...
...It was too bad, of course, that we had no adequate place to hold a meeting...
...However, there must be reference here to Gertrude herself in a red blouse marching near the head of the Amalgamated division, cheering and being cheered and having the happiest time she has enjoyed in a long, long time...
...We turn this May Day into a powerful and mighty demonstration of working class unity gainst the bloody hordes of fascism...
...faced by an ever-growing war danger in every corner of the capitalist world...
...I'm sure we could have had twice the showing we had if there weren't so many congenitally sober people in our ranks, people who are good, conscientious Socialists, but who shrink from marching through the streets in a parade...
...Ervln, James Duffy, Dorothy Beilanca, Jack Kroll, Henry Jag«r, Alex Cohen John Martin, Oertrede Weil Klein...
...t The kept press saw nothing to comment on in the fact that the International Ladies Garment Workers' and The Amalgamated Clothing Workers', contingents alone were one and a half times the size'of :he entire Communist turnout...
...I nearly joined the pantsmakers then and there...
...Now we have to put it back again," he said, almost sadly...
...Leading the Amalgamated ranks were Abraham Miller, Louis Hollander, Joseph Catalanotti, Joseph Gold, Peter Monat, I. Itzkowitz, and Murray Weinstein—I was in along here somewhere, too—farther .down we had Paul Arnone, Ben Addeo, Milk) Cerotola and other Local 68 and 142 officers...
...It took over two hours for their di•vision to pass the reviewing stand, and they made a grand showing nietoriallv as well as numerically...
...Blumenreich marched with the pantsmakers, Reich'with the vestmakers, Gable at tmTiwei of the recently organised padmakers (girls), ZinkowiU with hie Russian accordion players...
...Leading the International marshals, to mention only a few, we noticed—who could help it?—Julius Hochman at the head of the Dressmakers Joint Board, Sascha Zimmerman, of Local 22, Luigi Antonlnl of Local 89, Sam Shore of the White Good* Workers, Joe Tuvim, supremely happy at the head of his neckwear workers, Greenberg of Local 91, and I. Nagler, Jacob Breslaw ei the cloakmakers...
...Vineland...
...We're ready to concede that the International Ladies' Garment Workers walked away with the chief honors of the parade...
...The pantsmakers all wore pants, though they might have attracted more attention if thev hadn't...
...v£ capitalist press rallied to the defense and aggrandizement of the ¦oEsMunlst forces and proceeded to double and treble the numbers acItSlly participating in the Union Square parade and to cut in half or ftfird the vast numbers of men and woman who marched to Madison ¦ifsjeare Park...
...But in addition, for the first tine in the history of May Day Other revolutionary bodies were there, organizations that in the remote and the recent past had waged bitter and often relentless war upon the Socialist Party and the trade unions that usually work with the party, because of differences of opinion as to methods...
...I asked them, "ashamed of what...
...The different divisions wearing the insignia of their trades attracted considerable attention...
...We raise the banner of international brotherhood and solidarity against the danger of a new world war...
...We reaffirm our opposition to a system that has made outcasts and beggars of forty million people in the United States...
...Whet • labor of love went into that...
...rial rio in madison...
...Then, too, I imagine the fact that David Dubinsky, their International president, led the line of march, must have put a lot of pep Into the occasion...
...other matter...
...the padmakers carrying their pads...
...Marching at the end of the parade, after a five-hour wait, came the white and Negro members of the Workers' Unemployed League—an inspiring band of jobless but fighting men and women...
...They knew what they were I about...
...Somehow or other, standing in the street far three hours is more tiring than standing at the pressing machine for the same length of time...
...Louis Fuchs, they tell me, mar* shaled the men's neckwear workers, And there were Innumerable othere marching at the head of or in the midst of their delegations...
...There's no square...
...and the Lovestonltes and the l*««kyites and the unions and the Workers' Unemployed Union and wWorkmen's Circle carried a mass of banner, pennants, floats and «**• whlek, if laid to end, would have fllted up the Red Sea with no 5** ln ttoMtor it it* teler it attjrtWnf like Its name...
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