The Daily Worker

POLICE SLUG SHEPARD, STATE CANDIDATE; FORD, WEINSTONE SPEAK JULY 9

Appear at Communist Election Rally, Coney Island Stadium; Varied Program

S. P. Dodges Amter Challenge; Ford Speaks In Brownsville Tonight

NEW YORK.-Henry Shepard, Negro worker and Communist candidate for lieutenant-governor of New York, was attacked for the second time Monday evening by Tammany cops, in the campaign of terrorization against the workers and their candidates.

Shepard was distributing leaflets, announcing the Red Ratification Rally, at 139th St., on the corner of 130th Street and Lenox Avenue, with three other campaign workers, when three uniformed thugs charged on them swinging clubs. The workers who had been taking the leaflets were first driven up into a building by the cops, who then turned their attention on the distributors, and beat them with their clubs.

The leader of the cops was recognized by Shepard as the same one who arrested him June 22, during a protest demonstration before the Emergency Relief Bureau Office, 271 W. 127th Street.

On that occasion, Shepard was sentenced to five days in jail.

Waldman Evades Challenge

Late Tuesday afternoon, no word had been heard from the Socialist Party or from Lewis Waldman, their nominee for governor of New York, in answer to the challenge issued Saturday by Israel Amter, Communist candidate for the same office to debate with him in Utica tonight on the campaign issues and the election platforms of both parties.

Arrangements were proceeding for Amter's scheduled campaign meeting in Utica Tuesday night. Wednesday, he will speak in Syracuse, Thursday in Binghamton, Friday in Endicott, and Saturday in Ithaca.

Ford, Weinstone at Big Rally

James W. Ford, Negro worker and candidate for vice-president, and W. W. Weinstone, candidate for U. S. Senator will be the principal speakers at the Red Election Rally at the Coney Island Stadium on July 9, the United Front Election Campaign committee announced yesterday.

The program will include singing by a mass chorus, including the Freiheit Gesangs Verein and the choruses of other mass organizations. Music will be supplied by the W.I.R. and Red Front bands. A program of revolutionary music has been prepared by the Workers Music League.

Two mass recitations, "Scottsboro" and a new piece entitled "Red Election," by Victor Jerome will be presented by the Proletbuhne, as well as special numbers by the "Red Dancers."

Ford in Brownsville Tonight

James W. Ford, Communist candidate for the vice-presidency will speak in Dunbar Center, Herkimer Street and Herkimer Ave., Brownsville, tonight, Wednesday evening, opening the election campaign in that section, and in preparation for the Red Ratification Rally in Coney Island Stadium.

To reach Dunbar Center Hall from Manhattan, take the B.M.T., 14th St. Line to Atlantic Avenue, change to Fulton Line, get off at Troy St., and walk one block back.

Thursday, Ford will speak in the Workers Center, 27 Hudson Street, Yonkers, and Friday in Harlem at Renaissance Casino, 138th St., and Seventh Ave.

Music Picnic Merged

The picnic and entertainment of the Workers Music League, scheduled for July 9, at Ulmer Park, will be merged with the Red Election Rally to be held in Coney Island Stadium.

Tickets sold for the affair will be accepted at the rally.

Tag Day Funds!

All workers and working class organizations who participated in the Tag Days of June 25 and 26 are requested to account for their boxes immediately to the United Front Election Campaign Committee, 50 E. 13th St., 5th floor.

Need Cars, Bicycles

All workers having cars, bicycles, and motorcycles, are invited by the United Front Election Campaign Committee to meet Thursday, at 8 p.m. at Workers Center, 50 E. 13th St., to organize a parade for the Red Ratification Rally July 9 at Coney Island Stadium.