The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-22


TN TIME OF WAR the struggle of the toing masses for
the Streets under the leadership of the Communist Party
becomes as important as it becomes difficult.
very important, therefore that in its first battle
for the streets of New York City in the period of the
rapidly developing against the Union of Soviet Repub
lies, the Communist Party not only held its own but be
said to have scored clear victory the direct result of the
mlitancy of its members expressed in ndomabe will to
struggle
The first struggle in New York City as in Berlin and
other European cities of the demonstration before
the Chinese consulate of the Chang Kashe Marking gov
eminent Astor Place not far from the Wall Street
financial overords whose puppe is The link between the
clearly set forth in the placards carried by the
and in the speeches made by Vein
stone Darcy Grech Engdah James Mu, Chinese comrade
and Leonard Patterson Negro member OF the Young Com
munst League.
Efforts of the first contingent of police who arrived
the stop the speaking and smash the demonstration
successfully resisted
1t must be admitted that it not demonstra
ton in the that tens of thousands thousands
modified by the Party The actual demonstrators
rather numbered in hundreds But thousands of work.
out for the hour choked the street from Aston
Place to Broadway before the Alexander Hamilton Building
the sixth floor of which the Chinese consulate is located
The great hrong thoroughly sympathetic 1t jeered
the arrival of police forces from all stations in the
neghborhood that organized flying wedge behind police
automobile driving against the speakers platform reared in
the street on the shoulders Of a dozen comrades
1t brief for the police The demonstration
quickly reoganzed at the Broadway end of the street. and
NATIONAL the procession again moved defianty past the
building where the Chinese agent of imperialism is housed
The struggle continued for nearly hour out of which
the police emerged with 10 arrests but with the demontra-
on still completely organized marching up Fourth Avenue
to the headquarters of the Party workers everywhere cheer
ing the marchers
In order to follow up and maintain this initial success
however becomes absolutely necessary to draw of
workers into actual participation in such demonstrations
The tong masses be allowed to remain role
of sympathetic bystander They must become actual par-
cipans in the struggle to the number of many tens of
thousands
Although the tremendously successful series of mass
meetings held the streets various sections of Greater
New York last Friday night met with opposition from the
police is not out of the question that the Demonstrations
Against the mperiaist War August First will be forbid
den. This will mark phase of struggle for the Streets
the mobilization of for strikes and demonstrations
August First against the ban of the ruling keeny SEN
stve to the danger that threatens it the attack directed
against its Chinese lackeys
Where the police attack on the streets fails the capital
tcourts modified second line of assault with jail
and prison terms for those arrested
But every court prosecution in the trial of Weinsone
and the other comrades in Night Court last Saturday. be-
field of battle between labor and its oppressors
where class issues clash and the revolutionary program of
the Communist Party is presented to by its
spokesman where capitalism itself in its courts put
trial before the working class.
1t is here that the of the International Labor De-
Tense increasing Importance the present stu
alton The LID must be developed quickly as possible
into organization based in the workshops not only for
defense for the liberation of the Gastona textile
workers facing eecroction and other comrades in prison.
but also for the awakening large numbers of workers
correct understanding of the class struggle time of
and how best to defend the interests of the broad
the present crisis.
Win the for the conquest of the streets,
the defeat of the mperalst war; Build the Communist
Party Prepare for strikes and demonstrations August
First International Red Day Against mperialist War; under
the banners of the Communist International!