The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-03
Red Day --- A Stage of the Fight
Against Imperialist War

The nationwide demonstrations on August 1st against
mperast for the defense of the Soviet Union
only indicative of the growing willingness of the masses
struggle against their oppressors but they aluay
those the camp of Trosky and the Lovesone e
mens who sneered at the preparations for the demonstr
Cons and the slogan of "doWn tools
Thousands of workers in New York who left work at
four o'clock the hour appointed down TOOLS and marched
Union Square in spite of and against the brutality of the
Tammany police where speakers addressed 10000 men,
and youth In Chicago thousands of workers defied
the arrests cubbngs and terror of the police In Pittsburgh
wholesale arrests and the usual Pennsylvania cossak meth
DDS failed halt the demonstrators Philadelphia and De-
rot held big demonstrations In Boston and many New Eng
land cener the workers showed their determination to fight
against imperalist The Pacific Coast cities of San
Francisco Portland Seattle witnessed the biggest demon
STATIONS in years.
Certainly not since the Sacco and Vanzett demonstra
ons has there been anything to compare with the August
1st events in the United States.
Thus in the stronghold of the most powerful and
CANT Imperialism the workers showed their international soil
dary with the workers of the world in the struggle against
mperalst AS usual the capitalist press tries to be-
little and heap camny these working class demonstra
TONS To be the local press could not ignore the Union
Square demonstration could they deny the widespread
mobilization of hundreds of thousands of workers through
out the United States but the entire carries lying
stories about the nefecveness of the demonstrations and
strikes in other countries Cable information proves that
the international capitalist press is in conspiracy to be-
little the working class demonstration of August 1s The
of Berlin who May Day and two succeeding days
held the streets of important working class sections swarmed
the streets in such numbers that the murderous social demo
cratic police feared to again provoke them with fascist at
acks In spite of the 10000 soldiers in Paris the wholesale
arrests of Communist leaders and the suppression of the Of
fetal Party organ Humante of workers left the
shops and demonstrated the streets In China there
fierce street fights when the police tried to prevent the dem
onstraons against the Chang Kashek governments at
tack the Soviet Union In Warsaw Hesngfors and other
places bordering the Soviet Union the deed the
fascist governments and went into the streets.
The workers of the world under the leadership of the
various sections of the Communist International by their
actions Thursday proved to the capitalists of the world
that the lessons of the last world that launched fiji
have been learned and that they mighty
revolutionary force to reckon with that did not then exist
August First is not the climax of the preparations for
the struggle against merely marks stage of that
struggle. must be the beginning of systematic mob
zon of the for relentless struggle against every
phase of imperat preparations against the mperast
governments and in defense of the Soviet Union