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A Metropolitan Student Weekly

Volume IV — Number 3

NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1934

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STRIKE TOMORROW!

Rally, M March
By Torchlight
At 8 Tonight |

Prominent Speakers to Lead|
N.Y, Students in Action
for CCNY Support

The joyful wave of enthusi-
asm which swept /through the
New York schools late last week
when the news of the impend-
ing strike at City College was
trumpeted through the city will
come to definite action tonight
as students from all the city
high schools and colleges join
with day and evening session
CCNY students and others who
are eager in their desire to show
sympathy -with the struggle in
a mass torchlight parade and
dei tration at the

‘That the rally, which will get |
under way at 8 P. M. at 140th
St. and Convent Ave., was des-
tined to make student history
in New York was predicted by
many of the ‘leaders as pre-
parations got under way over
the weekend.

The New York district com-
mittees of the National Student
League and the Student League
for Industrial Democracy who
joined in the calling of this
manifestation for support of the |
embattled CCNY students both
indicated their belief in mass
turnouts for the meetings and
parade.

Edwin Alexander, a leading
NSLer and one of the most
outstanding among the 21 ex-
pelled boys, will be among the
speakers, a definite list of
whom has not yet been com-
d, Joseph Cohen, national
NSL secretary, Morris Milgram,
city SLID secretary, Joseph
Starobin, Leonard Gutkin and
Joe Lash, a:prominent SLIDer,
were among those mentioned as
possible speakers,

Throughout the city today
leaflets on many campuses and
meetings on many more will
build for city-wide participation
in tonight's march, and for
delegations of students from
the various schools to appear
at City tomorrow during the
hours of the strike to pledge
continued support and to lay
their demands for his resigna-
tion directly before Dr. Robin-
son.

“High schools and college
students in New York must
realize that only a mass turnout
ean insure the successful carry-
ing out of the tasks we have
to do Monday,” reads a state-
ment released by the NSL Sa-
turday.

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800 CONY students, led by Edwin Alexandpr, picket college after
enthusiastic strike yote rsday.

Strike Against Fascism!

AN EDITORIAL

ITY COLLEGE strikes tomorrow against one of the most
reactionary and vicious administrators ever to sit at the head

chair of an educational institution; a man whose career of in-
tense and |deliberate repressions — from the first expulsion of
Si Gerson in 1929 for participating in union activities outside
of school to this last batch of 21 for demonstrating against
fascism — has been marked by the personal attacking (via
umbrella) of the anti-war demonstrations on Jingo Day, 1933, by
the firing of Dr. Oakley Johnson and the subsequent breaking
of the evening session fight against fees in October, 1932, by
the vindictive persecution of the anti-fascists of October, 1934.

A man who has sought - sometimes successfully, sometimes
not - to smash every student organization voicing the needs
and demands of the student body; who outlawed the Social
Problems Club, the Student Fortm and the Liberal Club.

A man who has dissolved the Student Council, sole elected
organ of the student body at large, for its assumption, of leader-
ship in the college fight against retrenchment, war and fascism;
it is against this man, as a repressing agent of every force
profiting from crushing student protest — the big real estate
owners, the high-finance war-mongers, the anti-democratic fa-
seists, that we strike.

‘We strike against a man who has persistently slandered and

maligned by misrepresentation the student body and its leaders; |

whose pose of liberalism has never failed to be merely a pose;
whose ego-mania for publicity and never-failing desire to serve
his masters — has led him to discipline close to 100 militants
during his career as president.

We strike because the President has degraded his office in
his mamerous actions and statements which reached the public.
His aspiring literary contribution to;True Story Magazine went
a long way towards sinking the college’s name in the mud.

We strike to prevent him, as president of the City College,
from continuing his drive toward new criminal laws outlawing
all militant college students — as advocated in his signed edito-
rial in Hearst's New York AMERICAN (a paper for people who
think) on November 16.

We strike as the most effective way of indicating our deter-
mination that the 18 members of the National Student League
and the 3 members of the Student LID who were expelled shall
be immediately, unconditionally reinstated in City College.

To maintain our position ,as students, to defend our right to
fight war and fascism, we at City College strike today!

‘Walk out from 11 A. M. to 1 P. ML

Oust Robinson. Reinstate the disciplined students.
Student Council.

Reinstate

| this Friday at 3:30 P.'M.

CCNY Students Plan to
‘Walk Out from 11 to 1

Prepare for Strike Demanding Return of 21
Expelled, Ousting of Robbie; Pledge
Cards to Be Sold All Day Today

City College strikes tomorrow!

City-Wide Conference on

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In powerful answer to the latest expression of President
Robinson’s suppressive and vindictive disciplining of mili-
tant students, the student body of City College will walk out
of classes Tuesday from 11 a. m, to 1 p. m. with a three-fold
purpose in mind:
The ousting of Robbie.
The reinstatement of the 21 expelled students,
and canceling, of other ‘disciplinary measures, 1
The reinstatement of the dissolved Student Council. Yi
The expelled students in a protracted session at National
Student League headquarters Friday afternoon drew ze
detailed plan of campaign which will be offered today pul AD
Student Strike Committee of One Hundred which will be set
up on the campus.
‘The plans call for:
j ie setting up of Strike Headquarters, possibly in a mobile
ruck.
‘The selection of three chairmen for the numerous rallies which
will be held during the strike period
A mass meeting at the flagpole.
The election of ‘a committee from the strike meeting to visit
the President and demand his resignation.
= —— The display of a 7-foot effigy
of Dr. Robinson.
{Attempts are being made to
CCNY Called for Friday | procure Roger Baldwin, director
ay of. the American Civil Liberties
‘The growing number ,of or-| Union, Heywood Broun, popular
ganizations of all sorts which |¢olummist who has already in-
have indicated their support of |‘icated support of the boys,
the two main demands of the | Clarence Hathaway, editor of
students of City College will be | the Communist Daily Worker,
augmented by many at the|and Norman Thomas, Socialist
emergency conference which has |Party leader, among others, to
just been called by the 21 ex-|SPeak at the strike meetings A
pelled students for this week. | tomorrow.
Immediate steps toward the| Today City College students
ousting of President Robinson | will undertake several actions
and the reinstatement of the |to crystallize student sentiment
disciplined’ stndents will be|for the strike at the school.
planned and carried through | Booths will be set up on the
by the groups which send rep-| campus where strike tags will
resantatives to the conference |be sold. Students purchasing
‘The the tags will be simultaneously
| indicating

meeting will be held at a mid- their intention to
town hall, as yet, undecided | walk out tomorrow and con-
upon. tributing to the funds needed

Student, civie, legal, fraternal,
labor and anti-fascist groups
will be among those who have
indicated that they will answer
the call.

to carry on the campaign.
Mass picketing may again be
organized before the school.
This morning’s leaflet explains
in detail the actions of Tuesday. :

‘The following is a replica of the strike tag.
it out, sign it, and turn it in to a tag-booth.

I PLEDGE TO
Strike Tuesday, from 11 a.m. to 1 p. m.

for |g
Reinstatement of disciplined students
Ousting of Robbie

Reinstatement of dissolved Student Council.

Students may cut

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“(Signed)

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