near TwentY'-third Street, where
more than 1,000 students from City
and Hunter Colleges arrived at 11
A. M. at a speakers' platform. The
chairman, Sam Sadin, conducted
the meeting. Speeches were frequently interrupted with college
yells, and sing-song slogans were
8,000 From the Colleges and reiterated.
Thirty uniformed patrolmen unHigh Schools of City Join
der Captain James Nolan of the
East Twenty-second Street station
in Demonstration
had little to do except keep the
crowd from overflowing into adjoining streets. Robert Thompson,
THRONGS IN MADISON SQ. comma~der of the Canad.lanforces
7' in Spain, brought greetmgs from.
the Loyalists and urged the end of
J
the Spanish embargo.
Spanish Embargo
nd China
Hunter Students Take Part
Invasion by Japanese Among
An estimated group of 500 girls,
many wearing nurses' uniforms and I
Chief Targets of Protests
white caps, marching from Hunter
College, arrived about noon, filling
the west side of Madison Avenue
Protests against the bombing of between Twenty-third and TwentyBar~elona, the threat of fascism fourth Streets. The arrival of this
contingent brought three rousing
and Japanese aggression in China cheers of "Yea, Hunter!" from the
were staged by nearly 8,000 college boys. The girls responded in kind,
and high school students in behalf shouting "Yea, City College!"
of "peace and democracy" yesterThen began a series of chants.
day on various campuses of the Giving evidence of the influence of
Spring, the slogans had a poetic
city.
tinge. For example, "Collective acThe American Student Union ar- tion beats reaction," "Peace for
ranged the emergency peace dem- students and professors-quarantine
onstration with a view primarily to the aggressors," and the favorite
b
d t of the crowd, "Isolation means
lifting the Spanish em argo an 0 war, collective action means peace,"
urging the United States to join with rang through the air.
other democratic nations to "stop
Especial emphasis was placed on
fascism." Students from Columbia Japan'S invasion of China. The stuUniversity, New York University, dents were exhorted to slyIn silk
Hunter College, Brooklyn College stockings and to wear lisle. \.One of
and City College took part.
the students, An'
t.uci:i, imFrom 11 A. M. to 1:30 P. M. the plored the boys to oycott girls Who
students left classes and gathered ~ar silk.
near their institutions to hear mem- Uo friend
and peaceful was the
bel'S of Congress, veterans of the mood of the day that even the blueSpanish Loyalist forces, faculty coated patrolmen came in for a
members and fellow-students.
share of recognition. "Come on,
After the close of the city schools let's give the cops three cheers,"
nearly 600 high school students some one shouted. There .!.!lllowed
formed picket lines before the Jap- ."Yea, police," three times...J
anese, German and Italian cosua
f the policemen said
Iates, shouting and demanding an wit di!!lQlst "th~
ave furnecrtnto
end to "fascist aggression." The po- a un
sc 00 singing club no
lice kept the lines moving and no
can remem er-w en Dungs were
untoward incidents occured,
dl~.ut.."
Opposition Groups Hiss
Representatives
Speak
Yesterday's demonstration was a
Representatives Jerry J. O'Conpreiude to the nation-wide anti-war nell of Montana and Byron N.
meetings to be held on April 27.
Scott of California addressed varian at Cit Collegeand at ~ok- ous groups. Mr. O'Connell spoke
1Jm Colle~e
nume-rlcl1llysmall at City College, Columbia UniverOI!ll.QsjUop
gro1illr-appeal":" i (Jo- sity and the Hunter and the City
lumbia University a bloc oTbecklers College meeting at Madison Square
ridiculed speakers with catcalls and Park. He asked that the United
ironic comments. At Ci~ College States take an active interest in
close to .2.000 students marched. to preserving world peace.
the Le
n Stadium.
t er
At the New York University rally
group of forty or fifty boys, identi- in Washington Square Park Mr.
freao Themam b2 1lS' "Trotsky- Scott urged that the arms embargo
i ~
carried pos ers such as on Spain be lifted. Adolf Hitler
"Down with. co c: v:e sec . :l[" was burned in effigy amid cheers
trhey were barred from the field.
of "Down with Hitler and FasA similar opposItion wing formed c1sm" and "Make Spain the Tomb
at Brooklyn College. Reputed to of Fascism."
represent
the Young Workers
The College Teachers Union enLeague, fifty students picketed the dorsed the emergency peace demmass meeting of 2,500.
onstration, declaring that it conlOne of the most enthusiastic meet- sidered this action "most heartens took place in Madison Square Ing."
STUDENT RALLIES
ATTACK FASCISM
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