The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-06

mist Party speakers attacking the
coming imperialist war and calling
for the defense of the Soviet Union,
and booed and Missed police taking
the speakers names and trying to
arrest some of them.
An employers gang, with the con-
nivance of the police, did everything
possible to break up the meeting.
Motor cycles and cars roared by
with exhausts open; a can of flam-
ing carbon disulphide giving off poi
sonous vapors, was thrown into the
center of the crowd (where some
one kicked it into a gutter), and a
meeting of the gangsters started
across the street, with a speaker
calling on his supporters to "break
up the Communist meeting"
Crowd With Speakers.
The support for the Communist
speakers was so great from the
crowd that the police, who first
tried to arrest them, had to be con-
tent with ordering them to report
the next day at headquarters, and
had to order the inciter to riot
across the way to desist, as it was
plain that if a fight started the
crowd would be against him.
When Philip Bart, John North,
Nydia Barker, Erwin Kowalski,
Abraham Sompolski and Henry Som
polski, arrested at or before the
meeting. appeared in court, all but
Bart were dismissed. Bart is held
under 5000 bail for trial Aug. 20.
Good Meetings in Gardner.
GARDNER, Mass, Aug. 4.-The
students from the Young Com
munist League Training School dis
tributed leafles before the Wake
field and Haywood factory in Gard
ner and held an open air meeting
before the factory gates. The
speakers at this meeting were
Comrades Harry Hersh, Bill Tay-
lor, Figuerido and the instructor at
the school, Dave Mates.
The International Red Day meet
ing was opened by Comrade Fig
uerido at 8 o'clock in the evening
July 31st. After about five minutes
of his opening speech the chief of
police demanded to see the permit.
The permit was in the police station
wherefrom it was promptly secured.
The chair utilized this incident to
tell the workers about the freedom
here where it was necessary to get
permit to hold meetings and yet
the meetings were broken up in
many cases.
The speakers were Lauri Lauk-
konen, on the war danger, and
Harry Hersh, on the Gastonia strike
and trial. Anderson and Esther
Weisman explained the role of the
working class children in the class
struggle.
The chairman, Figuerido closed
the meeting with smash. Appeal
ing to the workers to organize
1 unions that would fight for them
and that would be completely con-
trolled by the workers, he empha-
sized the necessity Of organizing
politically in the Communist Party,
the young workers to join the Young
Communist League and the workers
children to join the Pioneers, giving
the time and place of meetings Of
each organization.
The crowd was about $50, the big
gest meeting of the workers that
has been held in Gardner.
Germans Still in Jail.
WILKES BARRE, Pa, Aug. g.
Dave German and his wife sched-
uled as speakers at the Wilkes
Barre demonstration against i'm
perialist war and for the defense of
the Soviet Union, are still in jail
today, having refused to pay the
$40 fine levied against them for dis
tributing the call to workers to OBJ
serve International Red Day. The
federal authorities confiscated some
Of the leaflets, and are trying to
frame Up federal charge.
McKEESPORT, Pa, Aug. 2, (By
Mail) THE Communist Party ant
Young Communist League held ar
open air demonstration outside the
National Tube Co., of McKeesport
Pa, in which over $500 workers
participated. So intense was the
spirit Of the demonstration, that
fully 20 minutes beyond the usual
one-half hour for lunch elapsed be.
fore the workers returned to the
Tube Co. to go to work. The large
workers demonstration was against
imperialist war and for defense oil
the Soviet Union.
Samuel A. Herman, the first
speaker, spoke about 10 minutes