The daily worker., 1930-03-05

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and supported by the Communist
Party. Great masses of workers
will turn out to support these de-
mands at Campus Martius at / D.
m. on March 6.
Los ANGELES, Calf. March /
(By Air).--The situation out here is
pretty hot, but nevertheless we are
getting along fine. You already
know about our Feb. 26 demon
stration. This demonstration was
the biggest Los Angeles ever had.
Over 5000 workers were present,
employed and unemployed. Some, or
rather a big number of workers
came from shops and factories, hav-
ing their lunch boxes with them and
using them as weapons to fight the
police.
This demonstration was of a diff
ferent character. The composition
was overwhelmingly composed of
American workers.
The workers were there to fight
and they did the fighting, too. The
famous" Red Squal got plenty on
their noses, and not only from PARTY
members but from non-Party work
ers. After the workers smelled the
tear gas they charged back the police
and pushed some of them into the
smoke. The police were unable to
arrest Comrade Clark at the demon
stration due to a strong body guard,
but they got him at the Party office.
Now we are busy for the March
demonstration The Chamber of
Commerce sent an army of stool
pigeons all over the city to try to
get our leaflets, but our apparatus
is working so well that they remain
ed '1ooking" for our leaflets and for
leading comrades who are out of jail.
We are calling our demonstration
in front of City Hail at 3 D. m. and
are agitating for "Down Tools at 2
p. M" We are also mobilizing un-
employed workers to put up a real
fight at this demonstration.
Now, of course, our drive is more
OF less difficult. Up to date we have
! 10 new members who Joined the
Communist Party, all workers and
majority Americans. Our drive will
bring more results in the few conf
! ing weeks.
The comrades are still in jail. We
expected to get them out today, but
at the last minute the bail was in
creased. I think they will keep them
until March 7 believing to cripple
our demonstration, but this game
will not succeed.
Of the twenty arrested, the dis
trict attorney threatens to take the
cases of Carl Sklar, Frank Spector
and Martin Shapiro to the grand
jury for indictment on charges of
Criminal syndicalism" the Infamous
anti-labor law of this and other
states. But the demonstration on
March will not be halted by all
the threats and violence of the capi-
talist police.
CANTON, Ohio, Mar. 4.-The
demonstration here on February 26
gave taste of what it will be on
March 6. AS the Unemployed Com
mittee, 200 strong, bearing our de-
mands and singing our songs
marched two miles to the City Hall,
it grew to over a thousand march
ers.
But at the City Hall and nearly
encircling it were 10000 workers
waiting, and as we approached the
cheer that rose was deafening. The
Committee of 200 went inside to
present our demands while the
crowds outside were told to wait for
the report.
And for three hours the 10000
waited, although outside it began
and continued to rain. In spite of
the cold rain when we got our an
swer and went out to report, the
10000 were still there, in fact the
crowd seemed to have increased.
As we looked out over the sea of
hungry and angry workers, we saw
10000 workers ready to fight, ready
to unite under revolutionary leader
ship, cowing the police into permit
ting us to march and to denounce
the capitalists from the steps of
their own capitalist government,
City Hall-hurling dare into the
faces of the classes which robs and
oppresses them.
They listened to our report, eager
to know the truth, cheering US and
letting us know that they now un-
derstand what they can expect as
workers from the class enemy that
exploits them. They cheered the an
nouncement that on March every
unemployed and employed worker
would be out on the streets of Can
ton, demonstrating in solidarity with
each other against the exploiting
class.
When Comrade l. o. Ford told
them of the refusal of our demands
by the city council, and said that
the only way to better the condition
of the working class was for the
working class to take matters into
their own hands, the cheer that
arose must have shaken the very
huildino housing the ranresent natives