The Mexican Persecution

At that time one of the big Catholic high schools in the city each month recieved a bundle of three thousand copies of our paper for their students.  I had spoken there of the work for the poor and some of the students had worked with us.  When we picketed the Mexican consulate to protest the religious persecution which was revived in 1934, the students came and joined us more than two thousand strong.  We had set out, half a dozen of us, and, although we had printed an invitation in the paper, we did not expect such a hearty response.  The police again were stunned at this demonstration, having met only with Communists in such mass demonstrations before.  The students sang, marched and rejoiced in the fact that their pictures appeared on the front page of the Daily News the next morning.--Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, pg. 207.