The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-10

iieiu III WorhGIS quarter IN Lne
Bronx. The police tried to stop this
meeting, but the several thousand
workers participating in the demon
stration militantly fought back.
This gives the bare facts of the
campaign for International Red Day
and the demonstrations on Inter
national Red Day.
The political results of the cam
paign have tremendous significance
for our Party.
1. The entire campaign was
carried thru under the slogans of
Defend the Soviet Union, Fight
Against Imperialist War and De-
feat the Imperialist Aims of the
American Government. 1t is the first
time in the history of our Party that
we were able to rally such large
masses of workers on issues of such
high political level.
2. international Red Day has
been established in the New York
District and the excellent united
front body which was organized
can now be broadened into a perma-
nent united front organization,
which shall achieve even greater re-
suits in the coming struggle against
war.
3. The prestige of our Party
among the working class as a
fighting organization has be n
tremendously raised.
a. The Party apparatus, even
some of its sluggish sections, were
activized and built up during this
campaign.
5. A considerable number of new
members were won for the Party.
6. In the midst of an attempt to
demoralize the Party thru internal
struggle, the Party moral was
raised to very high level, so that
the splitters were practically
washed away by the momentum and
sweep of the campaign.
z. The working class has sue
ceeded in dealing a tremendous blow
against war preparations against
the Soviet Union in rallying such
large masses for the Defense of the
Soviet Union.
8. The splendid resistance of the
workers to the police has caused
the police despite their brutality to
lose some of their ability to awe the
workers into submission, this being
step forward in the establishment
of an effective workers defense
corps.
AS compared to our Party's ac-
tivities in previous critical moments,
we can say that the events have
shown the tremendous progress our
Party has made. During early 1927
when the momentum for war against
the Soviet Union has been highly de-
veloped with the murder of Voikov,
the raids on ARGOS and the Soviet
Embassy, with the break in rela-
tons between the Soviet Union and
several of the imperialist powers,
with the masses of troops on the
Polish and other borders, our Party
was able to arouse barely a few
thousand workers to active struggle.
Only a little over two years later,
we have been able to get the splen-
did results we achieved and though
we realize that these are far from
sufficient for the needs of the situa-
ton, yet the fact is that the events
have proven that our Party's line as
given to us by the Sixth Congress
of the Communist International and
subsequent decisions is correct and
that following this line, we have
every right to expect that our strug-
giles for the future will develop on
an increasingly large scale.
There were many difficulties and
shortcomings which were brought
to light in the course of our cam
paign.
(1) We found that there
was resistance from some Party
functionaires who looked upon the
war danger as something foreign to
the struggle Of American workers.
(2) We found certain apathy
and even resistance on the part of