The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-02

DAILY WORKER, NEW YOR1
Square after the demonstration
there had disbanded, gathered out
side the Workers Center, 1928
Union Square. The police spared
neither women nor children and re-
fused for time to admit anyone
into the Prolectos Restaurant or the
Workers Bookshop. When the police
found that newspaper photographers
were taking pictures of the scene,
they began chasing them away in
order that there might be no record
of their brutality.
But the outstanding features of
the clashes with the police was the
courageous way in which the work.
ers, including the youth and the chill
dren, refused to be terrorized, and
defended themselves despite the fact
that they had no weapons or clubs.
The great anti-war demonstration
was continued at night with meet
ings in all sections of the city and
demonstrations before socialist party
headquarters and before the white
guardist centers in Harlem. AS this
edition of the Daily Worker goes to
press, reports are received that the
police are attempting to break up
demonstrations in various parts of
the city, but that the workers are
courageously holding their ground.
Form Defense Corps!
Urging the formation of workers
defense corps, the maintaining of
the Workers Anti-Imperialist War
and Defend the Soviet Union Con-
ference, which arranged the demon
stration, as a permanent body, and
the organization of anti-war COM
mittees in the shops, District Two,
Communist Party, last night issued
the following statement on the In
International Red Day demonstra-
tons:
'Defying the police, bosses and
rain, the masses of New York today
gave their answer to the imperialist
war mongers that are making war
on the Soviet Union and are prepar-
ing to plunge the workers into the
shambles of new world war. Tens
of thousands of workers in shoe,
needle, food, and other shops downed
tools and gathered in Union Square
for the defense of the Soviet Union,
the freedom of the Gastonia victims
from the electric chair and for the
revolutionary struggle against war.
August First today was estab-
lished as the red banner day of
struggle against imperialist war. All
the renegades, from the socialist
reformers to Trotskyist and Love-
stoneite defeatists, were given their
proper answer by the masses who
with unparalleled militancy and self
sacrifice, understand the meaning
of international Red Day and dem
onstrated for their class against
the imperialists and pacifist lackeys.
Internationalism.
"The demonstration was character
lied by its internationalism and
united front character and by the
display of police brutality. The dem
onstration was orderly except for
the provocation and violence of the
police who attempted to break up
the parade of Pioneers and who con-
centrated their full power to break
up the recurring demonstration be-
fore the headquarters of the Com
munist Party. The violence of the
police shows once again the neces-
sity for the workers organizing their
own defense corps to protect their
demonstrations. I h uniformed
members of the Young Communist
League that formed a protecting
body around the demonstrations and
who showed real fighting spirit in
carrying through their part of the
demonstrations is surely a good be-
ginning for the workers defense
bodies.
"The demonstration carried thru
by the united front anti-war con-
ference organized at the huge gath
ering last Thursday night at Irving
Plaza must be followed up by the
formation of anti-war committees in
all shops and the conference made
into a permanent body to war
against the war mongers that are
encircling the Soviet Union and
working feverishly to prepare the
new world slaughter. August First
has been made by the masses as
the red day of struggle against i'm
perialist war. On to the further
struggle against imperialist war,
against the socialist reformers!"