On the evening Of May 1, 1925, over two thousand people crowded into Chicago's Temple Hall for the annual Workers (Communist) Party's May Day celebration. Once the majority of the crowd had made its way into the hall, the meeting opened with singing the Internationale. A contingent from the party's Junior Section of the Young Workers League, made up of young boys and girls ranging in age from seven to fourteen, marched up the center aisle and joined their adult comrades in song. Wearing red neckerchiefs and carrying red banners, the Juniors walked onto the stage and continued to lead the assembly in revolutionary hymns, helping to set the tone for the fiery speeches that were to follow.