The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-20
5000 WORKERS
DEMONSTRATE AT
CHINA CONSULATE
Jail Weinstone, Mayor
Candidate of c.. P.

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ialist attack on the First Workers
and Peasants government.
"Let the unity of the workers OF
the world answer the crimes of the
butcher, Chang Kai-shek!" said
James Mu. "The Chinese workers
end peasants will refuse to bear
arms against their fellow-workers of
the Soviet Union!"
Tell of Imperialist Intrigue.
every maneuver of the capital
ist class of America aims at fur
thering the onslaught against the
U. S. S. r." Sam Darcy, Party can
,didate for Assemblyman in the
Fourth Assembly District, Bronx,
old the workers as he opened the
meeting. Cup on the sixth floor of
this building are the offices of the
Chang Kai-shek government, which
is responsible for the slaughter of
l.illions of workers and peasants"
J. Louis Engdahl declared. Eng
dahl, editor of the Daily Worker,
is the Communist candidate for
President of the Borough of Man
haitian.
This demonstration, the speakers
told the workers, was only part of
a great anti-imperialist war cam
paign to push which conference of
New York labor organizations would
meet at Irving Plaza Hall, Irving Pl.
and 18th St., on July %. The con-
ference aims to speed mobilization
for the great August First demon
Stration on International Red Day,
August First, at Union Square.
Defend the Soviet Union. social
ist fatherland of the world working
class!" was the ringing message of
every, speaker to the crowd which
defended the platform against the
first attacks of the police. Vein
stone, Rebecca Grecht, candidate for
Assembly in the Fifth Assembly
District; Leonard Patterson. Negro
member of the Communist Youth
League-all exposed the sanguinary
'l"moves of the imperialist powers
/ end their tools of the Chinese Ma
tionalist government"
Hold On Is Minutes.
The demonstration lasted As min
utes before reserves from Mac
Dougal. Mercer, Charles and Beach
St. stations concentrated around the
platform. They met with stubborn
resistance. A slight break in the
first lines was Immediately re-
formed when the next contingent
suddenly formed at Fourth Ave.
Clubs cracked against skulls as
police converged on the head of the
line, driving many into the hall of
the building and smuggling freely be-
fore the workers escaped to reform
the line. Finally, only after every
speaker had appeared and the dem
onstration had been carried through
with organized precision, the line
reformed at Astor Pl. and Fourth
Ave. and marched triumphantly
back to the Workers Center at %
union Square. All the arrested
IMd 'rers carried on the demonstra-
tiol. at the jails.
] Besides Weinstone and Mu, the
arrested were: Nat Kaplan, Assem-
bly, candidate in the. Third A. D.,
Bronx; Lydia Okin, Adolph Stern.
Rose Rubin, Aaron Chorover Joseph
Cion, Edward Royce, Sol Hurwitz,
May Kaplan, Sonia Zuker and Edith
kaplan.
The New York international La
hor Defense defended the workers
through Attorney Jacques Buiten-
kant. The men were taken to the
Fourth Precinct Court at Beach and
Varick SITS. The women were held
at the First Precinct, Old Slip Sta
ton. Edith Kaplan, who is un1sr
Is years of age, was taken to the
Hecksher Foundation, 10th st. and
Fifth Ave