The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-03
THOUSANDS IN
DEMONSTRATION
THRJOUT U. S.
May l Parades, Strikes,
Great Mass Meetings
Continued on Page Fivel

lett their jobs IN the afternoon to
attend a great demonstration in
Union Park, near the scene of the
Haymsrket affair, forty years ago.
In the evening Street Garments
Auditorium was packed during a
huge mass meeting.
At Mccormick Works.
For the first time the Harves-
ter Workers shop paper was sold
in many thousands of copies at the
Mccormick Harvester Works, where
on May Day in 1886 the eight-hour
strike movement was launched, re-
sulting in vicious resistance by the
employers and the killing of four
workers and wounding of 80 on May
! 8, with the Haymarket demonstra-
ton being called as a protest next
day--and that resulted in the Hay
market tragedy and the hanging of
the Haymarket victims.
With this tremendous history
back of them the meetings this year
revived the militancy of 1886, and
demanded organizational forms to
give it strength, outlined the build
ing of the new militant unions and
the Trade Union Unity Convention.
Engdahl at Webster Factory.
Speakers at two big noon meet
ings at the Webster Electric plant
were Engdahl, Kruse and Chilovsky.
The Webster plant is the second
largest in America, employing $4,000
at present, including 10000 women.
This number is considered the larg-
est number of women employed in
sny single industrial plant in the
world.
Other meetings were held at the
Pullman carshops, the steel plants,
the Crane Co., the Deering Farm
Implement Co., throughout the
Goose Island district and before
ether factories wherever at least
5000 are employed.
All the meetings were advertised
by 100000 leaflets distributed the
day before.
Demands in New Bedford.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, May 2.
The militant New Bedford textile
workers celebrated May Day with
mass meeting in which 5000 gath
cred in Bristol Arena and adopted
a fighting resolution for abolition
of the speed-up in the textile mills,
20 per cent increase in wages and
Che establishment of 4O-hour 5-day
week.
The heroes of the New Bedford
strike showed their solidarity for
their fellow-workers striking in
North Carolina by raising 5000 at
the meeting.
The speakers were: Pires, a Gas
tonia striker; Weisbord, secretary
of the National Textile Workers
Union; Ben Wells, rom England,
and Eli Keller.
Minneapolis Labcr Defies Police.
MINNEAPOLIS, May 1.-The
Communists held a May Day meet
ing in Minneapolis yesterday in
mite of police intimidation. Twenty
five motorcycle police and as many
detectives and stool-pigeons threat
ened the speakers with arrest if the
meeting were held.
In answer to this attempt at ter
rorization, over a thousand workers,
harassed by the police continu-
ously, fearlessly demonstrated.
Denounce Imperialism.
Pat Devine, Communist district
organizer, scored Mayor Leach iii
his speech and called upon the
workers to rally to the support of
the colonial peoples, the Filipinos,
the Nicaraguans and Latin Ameri-
cans, struggling against imperial
| ism.
The crowd broke into especially
hearty applause on mention of the
Soviet Union and the southern tex
tile strikers.
The speaker was thereafter taken
from the platform by police lieu
tenant, and the crowd proceeded to
Humboldt Hall and listened to Tom
Foley, Communist candidate for
mayor; Nick Maxi and Dave Moses,
Communist candidates in the Third
and Fiurth Wards, tell of the revo-
lutionary significance of May Day.
Seattle Workers Protest Fascist.
SEATTLE. Wash. May 2.-The
workers of Seattle rallied to the call
of the Communist Party to hold a
great protest meeting here yester-
day, simultaneously with the Swed-
ish fascist. Captain Lundborg's
meeting in the Civic Auditorium.
TIE Communist Party district or
ganizer, Sorenson, was the principal
speaker at the workers May 1 meet
ing; others were representative
Of the Young Communists, three
other speakers in English, including
a Negro speaker, and speakers in
Swedish, Finnish, South Slavic, Rus
sian and Jewish.
Consul Has Communist Jailed.
The workers meeting was sue
cess to the finish, although the
Swedish consul here appealed to the
police to do something. Thirty po-