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Sid Ordower wins tussle
from hecklers and police
When pie and egg-tossing rowdies failed to break up a
peaceable 29th Ward Progressive Party street corner meet
ing Monday night, police assigned to the Fillmore Street
police station came to the hecklers' aid.
Incited bv two or three older men, one of them a
middle-aged World War II
vet. hecklers moved in on the
meeting on the southwest
corner of Madison and Karlov
soon after Attorney H. B. Rit
man. Progressive candidate for
Municipal Court judge, intro
duced the Progressive candidate
for Congress from the 6th Con
gressional District. Sidney L.
Ordower. to the audience.
While Ordower. a war vet
eran, answered questions from
the audience, there was. he said,
no "physical disturbance’’ from
the peaceful crowd, only "at
tempts to outshout me and to
prevent me from answering
questions.'’ Ordower told The
Standard:
”1 succeeded to a certain ex
SIDNEY ORDOWER
tent in overcoming this obstacle,
and 1 believe, had the . . . sym
pathetic attention of most of the
crowd. . . . Until at 9:20 p.m.,
a pie and egg . . . were thrown
at me, just missing my head.”
Ordower told his audience,
which by this time had grown to
about 400, "that I would not
budge one inch from where 1
was standing, no matter what
they threw at me. and that we
were going right on with the
meeting. 1 also appealed to the
crowd for the right of free
speech, and the majority defi
nitely seemed to be on our side.”
Just after the pie and egg
tossing incident, Ordower said,
"two plain clothesmen came up
to me and inquired if we had a
permit for the meeting. I said
we didn’t have one, the corpora
tion counsel having ruled that
such permits were not necessary
... I told them that I was going
to continue to speak, and if they
thought I didn't have the right,
to do their duty and arrest me.”
The plain clothesmen held off
until the Progressives had tuned
in on Henry Wallace’s regular
Monday night broadcast, and
amplified it to the crowd over a
P.A. system.
"A police sergeant came up to
me,” Ordower said, “and asked
me to stop the meeting ... I
asked him if I was under arrest
and he said that I was.”
At the police station, there
was no attempt to book Or
Wallace's 10-point program
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pended pending the outcome of
such negotiations, and "our vast
armament expenditures be
scaled down.”
5. American support be given
to a plan for a "unified and
democratic Germany.”
6. The U S. join with other
UN members in guaranteeing
against a resurgence of German
armed power, and in assuring
that Nazi war criminals be dealt
with justly” and German cartels
“be permanently curbed.”
7. The U S. support "a reason
able reparations program.”
8 Another and "genuine at
tempt be made to outlaw atomic
weapons, beginning with a U S.
pledge "to renounce the use of
this barbarous weapon.”
9. The U S. “cease at once”
its financial and military support
of “corrupt dictatorships” or
"colonial empires” in China,
Greece, Latin America, Indo
nesia, and Indo-China.
10. "Such persecution tactics”
as the "Truman loyalty purges,”
the activities of the House Un
American Committee, "and other
devices now being used for in
ti m i d a t i o n” be immediately
abandoned.
This program, Wallace claim
ed, “would make the face of our
United States recognizable again
to ourselves and to the world.”
On the eve of the convention
U.S. immigration authorities ar
rested George Pirinsky, execu
tive secretary of the American
Slav Congress, for deportation,
charging him with membership
in an organization which alleg
edly advocates the use of force
and violence to overthrow the
government
Pirinsky actually was arrested
because he “has dared to speak
up for international cooperation
rather than international provo
cation,” Wallace charged.
, “He spoke out against the pol
icy of rewarding our wartime
enemies and punishing our war
time friends,” Wallace pointed
out. He voiced the common be
lief of American and Slavic peo
ples in the essentials of human
freedom. He urged that these
peoples, who had fought together
for common aims in war, con
tinue to cooperate for these aims
in this strange period we call
peace.
"To the thought police of the
Truman administration these are
apparently dangerous thoughts.
A man who holds them, even
though he has contributed much
to the cause of peace and under
standing between peoples, is sub
ject to arrest if there is any
possible pretext for such out
rageous action.”
He expressed his belief that
this kind of petty persecution
will react against itself.”
The delegates were welcomed
by William Abramchik of Chi
cago, head of the congress’ Mid
west division. Other speakers in
cluded Leo Krzycki, congress
president; Pirinsky; Zlatko Balo
kovic, congress vice president;
Prof. Gene Weltfish of Columbia
University; Johannes Steel, news
analyst; Miss Pearl Hart, Pro
gressive candidate for chief jus
tice of the Municipal Court.
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dower, or to press a complaint
against the Progressive Party.
Police lamely complained of
blocking traffic and obstructing
sidewalks, although Progres
sives repeatedly asked the audi
ence to allow cars to pass.
“We’ll be back at the same
corner next Monday night,” Or
dower told The Standard.
More Dixiecrat eggs were
tossed in Chicago Monday night,
when hecklers caused trouble
at a Southwest Side Progressive
Youth meeting at 47th and Ash
land. The egg hit a cop on the
leg.
j Don't forget to register j
• This week the three major
• political parties were neck
2 anil-neck in the race to regis
• ter a maximum number of
• Illinois voters for the crucial
• Nov. 2 election.
• The finishing line: Tues
2 day, Oct. 5.
• Youth and energy heavily
2 weighted the odds in favor of
• the pro-Wallace Young Prog
2 ressives of America, whose
• 3,000 members from 22 Chi
2 cago chapters—aiming their
• sights at new voters in par
• ticular — tirelessly canvassed
• house - to - house, distributing
• 15,000 registration leaflets.
• This Saturday, Oct. 2, the
i last day of “New Voters
• Week” in Chicago, YPA
members scheduled a caravan a
which will tour the city, be- •
ginning on Chicago’s South- a
west Side and ending up at *
City Hall at 11:30 a.m. 2
Those who must register in *
order to vote Nov. 2 include: •
1. Those who have never J
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2. Those who have married J
or changed addresses since •
the last registration. *
Registration continues in •
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tween 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. •
on weekdays, and 9 a.m. to 12 a
noon on Saturday. On Oct. 5, •
the last day, precinct polling I
places will be opened for •
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tration. •
U.S. SENATOR Glen H. Taylor, Progressive candidate for Vice
President, (with papers) and Curtis D. MacDougall, PP candidate
for U.S. Senator from Illinois, (on his left) visit the picketline at the
American Zinc Co. plant in Fairmont City, III., prior to speaking
at a mass rally of Progressives in East St. Louis.
Pilch reveals
Taft attempt
to 'frame' typos
The attempt by Sen. Robert A.
Taft <R.,0.) "to frame” striking
members of the International
Typographical Union (AFL)
through NLRB action was bit
terly assailed by Local 16 Pres
ident John J. Pilch.
It was recently revealed that
on July 28, Taft asked NLRB
lawyers "to put the heat” on the
Chicago NLRB staff in order to
break the ITU strike that got
underway Nov. 24. At the July
28 meeting, Taft introduced the
lawyers to publisher representa
tives.
“The foundation of Taft’s
feeble excuse was his story that
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the Senate-House committee
had authorized him to call the
secret huddle with the strike
bound publishers, their lawyers
and the NLRB attorneys,” Pilch
said. ‘‘But Taft’s story is refuted
by every member of that com
mittee whom we have con
tacted.”
Pointing out that Taft wants
to crush the organized labor
movement by “foul means or
fouler,” Pilch asserted: “We’ll
resist his every fascist move,
whether by open attack on the
Senate floor or by sneak attack
from his private plotting room.”
Janney West Side
street meeting
hits evictions
More than 400 West Siders
gathered at 13 th and Throop
Sts. last Friday night to hear
Albert Janney, Progressive can
didate for the State Legislature
from the 17th congressional dis
trict.
Janney outlined a plan of ac
tion to his audience, most of
whom were tenants from the
Robert Brooks housing project,
for combatting the Chicago
Housing Authority’s planned
eviction of "higher income”
project tenants.
Fifty members of Janney's
audience agreed at the street
corner meeting to form an ac
tion committee to co-operate
with Progressive - led project
tenants’ committees all over the
city who are balking eviction.
Although CHA projects re
quire occupancy only by per
sons of minimum wage groups,
“higher rent” tenants argue that
(1) their increased wages are
eaten up by the high cost of
living; (2) if evicted, 'higher
rent” tenants have no homes to
move to.
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