The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-02

gas bombs in addition to their re-
volvers and clubs, lowered around the
scene Of the demonstration and in
nearby concentration points. Along
the waterfront in particular, where
two days ago the Marine Workers
Industrial Union led an extremely
militant demonstration, the police
were out in huge force, but succeeded
in intimidating none. At the central
demonstration, police refused to per-
nit workers to enter Union Square
after the frs tspeaker mounted the
platform. Provocative moves were
also made by the police at the Madi-
son Square concentration point, when
they refused to permit the assembled
workers to march to Union Square,
but the militancy of the marchers
was such that the police counter
manded their own orders.
Four Mobilization Points.
Open air meetings in four sections
of the city were used as concentra-
ton points and as a means of rally
ing thousands of new workers to the
anti-war demonstration. They were
held at Columbus Circle at White
hall ST., on the waterfront, at Madi-
son So. and at Tompkins So. Park
AS the assembled workers fell into
line at these four points, and started
their march to Union Square, thou
sands Of workers from the sidewalks
| streamed into the marching columns
so that when the four columns final
| ly reached the central demonstration
each was several times larger than
when it started
AS the marchers streamed into the
Square they were welcomed by the
unorganized workers who had as
senbled at the call of the thousands
of leaflets which had been distrib-
uted, and by the Red Front Workers
brass band.
Hundreds of Workers Flags
Hundreds of flags, banners and
placards held aloft by the marchers,
carried, among others, the following
slogans; stop the robber Japanese war
against the Chinese masses" For a
workers and farmers government i'll
the U. S. A." Down with boss ter
ror," Free the Scottsboro boys, .
Equal rights for all Negroes" TON
Mooney is innocent, we demand his
/ release" Smash the bosses wage-cut
drives" Defend the Soviet Union, y
Fight against all imperiaIst wars,
Flight deportations,' Force the i'm
mediate payment of the bonus" I'VE
demand our bonus, not bullets" 1.-THE
socialist leaders, the A. F. of L. mis-
leaders and the bosses support wars"
Fight for unemployment insurance
: at the expense of the state and the
! Bosses"
Shepard First Speaker
: Ten-feet square portraits of Tom
Mooney and the Scottsboro boys,
by John Reed Club artists, brought
forth spontaneous cheers.
Marcel Scherer was chairman of
the meeting. He introduced as the
first speaker, Henry Shepperd, Com
munist candidate for lieutenant gov
ernor of New York State. Shepperd,
a Negro worker who only last week
narrowly escaped serious injury or
death while helping replace the fur
niture of an evicted worker-at the
hands of cop who swung viciously
at his head with blackjack ut miss
ed, exposed the war plans of the
Hoover government, plans which the
hunger president was seeking to hide
by various fake disarmament plans
and conferences.
Shepperd called Bloody Thursday
the answer Of the Hoover government
to the workers demand for the bonus
and for unemployment insurance and
said that the working class would
answer the murderous attack by the
united struggle Of all workers, Negro
and white, employed and unemployed
native and foreign born
i Vet Leader Speaks
The second speaker, Walter Trum-
bull, leader of the Workers Ex-
Servicemen's League who was SEN
fenced to 80 years in Jail for carry
ing on anti-work but later released,
evoked tremendous enthusiasm when
he told the massed workers that the
events of Bloody Thursday were not
a defeat for the veterans but on the
contrary were victory because the
veterans now realized that their fight
for the bonus could not be separated
from the general struggles of the
working class.
: Trunbull described as dastardly
the actions OF the trops in bayonet-
, ting and casing the war veterans
last Thursday, but said he was GER
tain that if Hoover called on them
to repeat their action again large
= numbers Of them would refuse.
Hoover was called a murderer by
Trumbull because Of the killing of the
veteran Hushka and the death of the
bonus marcher's bsEy afer the gas
attack.
Ovation for Communist Party
Trumbull promised for the Work
ers' Ex-Servicemen's League that it
would send organizers all over the
country to organize a greater and
l stronger fight for the bonus and for