The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02
10000 WORKERS
IN N. Y. ANTI-WAR
De N ONSTRATION
Many Thousands More
Stop Work
Continued from Paae Onel

esuN ddSS VI LiiS revolutionary WOFk-
ing class of this city. The north
side of Union Square was a forest
of banners, bearing such slogans as:
Fight Against Imperialist War;
"Pacifism Is Screen for War Prep
arations"; "Smash the Gastonia
Frame-Up, Establish the Right To
Organize; Defend the Soviet
Union; "The Communist Party
Enters the Election Campaign to
Fight Imperialist War; Down
With Fascism"; "The A. F. of l..
Bureaucracy Are the Recruiting
Agents for the Imperialist Armies;
''The Struggle Against Imperialist
War Is Also a Struggle Against
Capitalist Efficiency and Speed Up;
Demand Immediate Release of All
Imprisoned Gastonia Textile Strik-
ers"; BLACK and White Workers,
Unite Against Lynching, Jim Crow
and Discrimination; "The Commu-
mist Election Platform Is a Weapon
Against Imperialist War"
| Cheers For USSR, Gastonia, Party
Nominees.
Speaker after speaker exposed the
war Vaccinations of the imperialists
and called on the workers to fight
against the war plots and for the
defense of the Soviet Union. Every
mention of the Soviet Union, Of the
Communist Party and the Commu-
mist International was greeted with
enthusiastic cheers. The crowd also
roared their approval and support
of the fight to save the Gastonia
frame-up victims and gave great
ovations to the Communist candi-
dates in the municipal elections who
spoke. When Bertha Crawford, one
of the Gastonia strikers, arose to
speak, though the rain was already
falling heavily by that time, the
crowd burst into spontaneous cheers.
Delegations of Latin American
workers, Chinese workers, Italian
workers, French workers, workers
of various trade unions marched to
the Square and joined with the thou
sands of others who came there in
dividually in united front demon
stration that was truly international
in character.
Many Speakers.
Among those who spoke were Will
liam 2. Foster, secretary of the
Trade Union Educational League;
William w. Weinstone, Communist
candidate for mayor; Jack Stachel,
for the Central Committee of the
Communist Party; Rebecca Grecht,
Communist candidate in the Fifth
Assembly District, Bronx; Fred Bic
denkapp, candidate for borough
president of Brooklyn; Sam Darcy
Ben Lifshitz, Harold Williams, head
of the Negro Department of Dis
trict 2, Communist Party; James P
Reid, president of the National Tex
tile Workers Union; Rose Wortis, of
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union; Grace Lamb, of the
Harlem Tenants League; Ben Lif-
shitz, Leonard Patterson, Negro
member of the Young Communist
League; M. ]. Olgin, editor of the
Mo, Chinese worker; Tom Di Fazio,
Mo, a Chinese worker, Tom Di Fazio,
of the Anti-Fascist Alliance; I. Ri
jak, organization secretary of the
Young Communist League; Morris
Pasternak, Kate Gitlow, of the
United Council of Working Women;
several Pioneer speakers and many
others.
A resolution denouncing the i'm
perialist plots against the Soviet
Union and demanding the release of
the Gastonia prisoners was unani-
mously adopted with a great show
of enthusiasm.
The calling out of the squad of
armored motorcycles with machine
guns, merciless clubbings of work
ers, the tearing up Of placards, at
lacks on children - this was the in
furiated reaction of Tammany's
strike breaking watchdogs to this
great mass challenge to the plumber
system that they are paid to defend.
Even after the Union Square dem
onstration had finally been forced
to disband because of the rain, work
ers thronged back to Union Square
and there were recurring demonstra-
lions for long time, whereupon the
police lost the comparative self-con-
troll that they had shown earlier.
They were still smarting under the
ignominy of the defeat administered
to them by the Young Pioneers who
at the start of tn, demonstration
had led them pretty chase for sew
eral blocks after parading with BAN
ners aloft despite the attempts of
the police to break up their line.
Two Pioneer leaders, Helen and Ly-
dia Okun, were arrested during this
skirmish. They were released on
$500 bail each, furnished by the
New York District of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, and will re-
ceive a hearing today.
Police Club Workers.
Riding their motorcycles up on
the sidewalk, the police began mer-
cilessly clubbing and manhandling
workers who, streaming from Union