The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-03
$4,000 BATTLE IN
PITTSBURGH ON
ANTI-WAR DAY
Show Militant Action
Against Police
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Ambridge, Monesson, and the min
ing towns, including Avella, Cover
dale, and Penowa. Four thousand
workers from the Westinghouse
Electric Co. demonstrated at noon
day meeting, and remained five min
utes over the lunch time, to vote
their protest against the attack on
the Soviet Union.
The International Labor Defense,
through District Secretary Saltzman,
is defending all the cases and has
already bailed out all arrested.
Parade in Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2. - Pa
rading from street meetings in
working class sections with ban
ners denouncing the imperialist at
tack against the Soviet Union, as
sailing the Kellogg pact and de-
manding freedom for the Gastonia
prisoners, workers filled the New
Broadway arena here last night at
the International Red Day demon
stration against imperialist war and
for the defense of the Soviet Union.
Police Out in Force.
Hundreds of police and detectives
surrounded the arena and lined the
streets as the paraders converged
in the vicinity of the meeting and
marched into the place, but no ar
rests were made and there was no
attempt to stop the marchers in
spite of the fact that the newspa-
pers had declared the police would
prohibit the demonstration.
Refused to Get Police Permit.
The police of the city have tried
for years to maintain strict police
censorship over meetings of the
Communist Party,-but of late the
Party and other organizations have
waged struggle against the per-
nit system with the object Of break
ng it. The inactivity of the police
accounted for by the fact that a
week ego an indoor meeting Of the
International Workers Aid in behalf
of the Gastonia prisoners was raided
and number of prominent Phila-
delphians, among them the daughter
of a former governor, were arrested.
The newspapers, that had always
applauded arrests of workers, began
a campaign of denunciation against
the police and two contending po-
litical factions used the incident for
their own purposes, with the result
that Superintendent of Police Mills
is on the defensive.
Cheer Revolutionary Speeches.
Herbert Benjamin, district organ
izer of the Party, as chairman, spoke
about the war danger, the attack
against the Soviet Union, and the
Gastonia case. Rudolph Shonan, of
the Communist Youth League, dealt
with the question of imperialist war
it affects the youth. There was
speaker from the Pioneers and a
Jhinese speaker who denounced the
Chang Kai Shek government for
its war against the Soviet Union.
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Worker, former candidate for gov
ernor of Pennsylvania and recent
Communist candidate for mayor of
the city, was the principal speaker
and presented the Communist posi-
ton on war, particularly dealing
with the role of the United States
government in the campaign against
the Soviet Union, and raised the
slogan of defeat American imperi-
alism," in declaring that in case of
IN imperialist war between imperial
st nations the Communists raise the
slogan Of determination and at the
proper moment, of turning the war
between the imperialist nations into
a civil war against capitalism. In
ease of war against the Soviet
Union, the slogan shall be Ego over
o the side of the Red Army"
The meeting was ex nelly enthu-
'iastic, far surprising any May Day
demonstration of recent years.
After the meeting there was a
parade with banners along streets
Tiled with crowds from the theatres,
md past the City Hall to the Party
leadquarters.
Miners Meet; Defy Police.
WEST FRANKFORT, ILL.,, Aug.
In this important coal mining
enter, the mayor of West Frank
'ort prohibited mass meetings to