The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10
MUNITI0N LABOR
Answered CALL
ON INT'L RED DAY
Halted Work to Attend
Big Rallies

of the ammunition workers to the
call of the Communist Party to de
feat the Bosses War" and ODE
fend the Soviet Union" was the
main feature of the Red Day demon
strations in Connecticut. Defying
the intimidation by their bosses and
by the authorities, challenging ar
rests and organized provocations,
the ammunition workers demonstra-
ted their solidarity with the pro-
gram and demands of the Party in
its Red Day activities before and on
August 1st.
Factory noon hour meetings,
thousands of copies of the special
editions of the ammunitions shop
bulletins, $4,000 leaflets with a par
ticular appeal to the ammunition
workers, and open air meetings in
the proletarian residential districts
were part of the preparations for
Red Day,
Authorities Excited.
Much to the discomfort of the
local bourgeoisie the workers of the
Winchester Arms and Ammunition
plant were the first to openly pre-
pare to mobilize for Red Day. Dis
regarding the increased intimidation
the bosses practiced since the re-
cent Communist raid upon the city
council meeting following the fatal
explosions in the plant, hundreds of
workers attended the noon hour
meetings of the Party held in the
very heart of the factory. Two days
before Red Day, Peter Chaunt, Dis
trict organizer of the Communist
Party, was arrested while speaking
to hundreds of Winchester workers
in the center of the factory plant.
The ammunition workers resented
emphatically the cops pulling
Chaunt down from the truck from
which he addressed the noon mass
meeting.
Thousands of Winchester workers
welcomed and cheered the special
six page edition Of the Winchester
Worker" the acknowledged spokes-
man and organizer of the workers
struggles in the Winchester plant.
Arms Workers Cheer.
The ammunition workers consti-
tuted a great part of the big demon
stration on Red Day at the Central
Green and cheered enthusiastically
as numerous revolutionary banners
were PRAISED around the platform.
George Powers, Nina Raskin, Bene-
dict Kroll, Helen Spector and Robert
S. King, chairman and Communist
candidate for mayor in the coming
municipal elections, were the speak
ers. Scores of police and plain
clothes agent provocateursmi mingled
with the crowd but dared not to
challenge the enthusiastic and de-
termined workers.
In full military dress, Judge S.
Whitaker, major in the National
Guard, scored the police and City
Attorney French for arresting
Comrade Chaunt merely for illegal
distribution of leaflets" at the trial
last Saturday. Enraged by the revo-
lutionary appeal to the ammunition
workers of the Red Day leaflet,
read in the court, Judge Whitaker
openly recommended more vicious
charges against Chaunt, but regret
fully freed him because of lack of
evidence that he actually distributed
the circulars.
Hartford Workers Mobilize.
Nearly a thousand workers par
ticipated in the Red Day demonstra-
ton at Park Street, the proletarian
avenue of the state capital. Workers
from the Underwood and Royal
typewriter, Whitney Aircraft, U. S.
Rubber and Colts Arms plants re-
sponded to the Red Day call. "The
Workers Cum" shop bulletin of the
Colt workers, and thousands of Red
Day leaflets were distributed at the
factories before Red Day. Comrade
Mary Sachs was arrested and fined
for illegal" distribution of hand
bills. Emma Schlossberg, principal
speaker of the mass meeting and a
fiery Pioneer speaker received ire
mendous applause.
Thousands of leaflets and a
special edition of "The Workers
Shot" the factory paper of the
Remington ammunition workers
carried the Red Day mobilization ap-
peal to the factories.
Provocation Fails in Bridgeport.
A gang of organized provoca-
teurs, evidently from the General
Electric and Remington Arms Com
panies and some Legionaires, made
vain attempt at the end of the
huge, and successful Red Day
demonstration in Bridgeport to
throw the meeting into confusion.
They failed.
Hundreds of workers demon
strated solidarity with the Party at
the meeting. Spreading along
Main Street, practically stopping
traffic, the mass meeting cheered
frequently listening to the revolu-
tiopary speeches of John Vincent,
Peter Chaunt and Edward Mrasco,
chairman. At the end of the demon
stration, the provocateurs started to
shout. The snappy answers of the
speakers. and the discontinued but