GREATEST DEMONSTRATION IN NEW YORK'S HISTORY
KEW YOlvK, June 10. In wliat is described as the greatest demonstnttion in Kew York's history, 150,00.0 Congress and industrial organisation members marched to Madison Square Garden tonight to Jrear 15 speak er s eondemn the Taft-lIartJ.ey Labour Bill and to demand the Truinan veto jneasure. Marching twenty abreast the unionists took three hours to pass along Eighth Avenue to the Garden. They chanted continuously: "We demand the veto, Mr. Truman" and bands played a theme tune based on the familiar hymn "Ilold the Fort for I am Coming. " Mayor William O'Dwyer told both a packed auditorium and lnige overflow gathering that the "Republicans are out to smash you unions. They gave us labour spies, yellow dog contract strikebreakers, blaeklists and lookout — before the' Wagner Act became law.'-' The C.I.O. president, Mr. Philip Mur-' rav, said that if the Bill became law it would work a fundamental ehange in the American form of Government. "Iustead of a Government elected to serve the people it will be a /Gpvern ment bound by the law to do the bid ding of employers against their workers. Can this be called by any other name tlian Fascism?" lie asked.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 June 1947, Page 5
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