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


Properly speaking it car be said
the whole campaign for Irterna-
tional Red Day in New York was
confined to the latter three weeks
Of July. Prior to this period there
had been occasional articles in the
press on Red Day, which were most
Fly reprints of general news releases
Issued by the Comintern. During
the three weeks prior to August list,
however, our New York District en-
tered upon what may be termed as
the most intensive campaign our
Party has ever gone through. Most
other campaigns which are carried
through on large scale. especially
the drive to save Sacco and Van
zetti, were several years in gaining
momentum.
During the three weeks there
were:
(D A quarter of million pieces
of literature distributed which dealt
specifically with August 1st.
(2l The United Front Conference
Against Imperialist War and Cor the
Defense of the Soviet Union had
close to 400 delegates who came ap-
proximately 65 per cent from organ
izations outside the Communist
Party and the Young Communist
League.
(3) For about Is days prior to
August LIST, there were arranged 230
factory gate and street meetings, Of
which about SIS failed because of If
responsibility of certain speakers or
some committees which did not carry
its duties through properly. But
many tens of thousands of workers
were modified through these fac
tory and street meetings for Inter
national Red Day.
(O On Friday afternoon. July
26th, after a secret mobilization of
several hundred of our most trusted
members in the Party, we held a
demonstration in front of the Chi
nese Consulate, which actually raj
lied as many as 5000 workers who
swelled the picket line as we'll as the
bystanders who cheered the battle.
This demonstration was one of the
best in comparison to similar noon
hour and week day demonstrations
which the Party ever organized.
With the use of several innovations,
such as portable platform, picket
reserves, ETC., six of our speakers
were able to address the demonstra-
tors before the police finally sue
ceeded in stopping the meeting, after
which the picket line, several hun
bred strong, fought together with a
sympathetic crowd and defeated
three different police assaults in at
tempts to break it up. The pickets
marched up Broadway to the Work
ers' Center in demonstrative fash
ion, the distance of almost half a
mile, during which the police again
fruitlessly attacked the march.
(5) That same evening mobiliza-
ton demonstrations were organized
throughout the city at eight concen-
trationRoints. These were the big
gest meetings ever held in our Sec
tions during any campaign. The to-
tai number Of workers who attended
these meetings reached $4,000.
(6) The next morning, which was
Saturday, witnessed the departure
of several hundred Boy Scouts to
the Boy Scout Jamboree in Great
Britain, which is one of the biggest
imperialist demonstrations of its
kind ever staged. About 125 Of our
Young Pioneers, with the aid of
about rs Party and Young League
members marched with banners on
to the pier and held demonstration
against the Boy Scouts. Fighting
the police for half an hour before
they were forced to withdraw from
J the pier, our comrades formed line
of march from the waterfront to the
Workers Center singing songs,
waving banners, etc.
(7) Two days later the children's
delegation to the Soviet Union left,
on which occasion another demon