The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-02
M a r C h from Four
Sections of City to
Aug. LIST Rally
tcoNT1NUED FROM PAGE ONE,

Central Committee of the Commu-
mist Party: "The second world war
is in the immediate future" twenty
five thousand voices shouted their APP
proval Of a resolution calling for
struggle against war, and for the
election of delegates to the coming
Anti-War Congress.
The Square was a sea of banners
and placards, as speaker after speak
er exposed the war preparations of
the capitalist class, and called for
relentless, united struggle.
The central theme of the speeches
was the fight against the Industrial
Recovery Act, the main form of the
Roosevelt governments attack on
the living standards of the workers.
and for the suppression of the work
ers in preparation for war.
Headed by the Red Front Band
and the Workers Ex-Servieemen's
League, the Battery Park contingent
was the first to reach the square, at
about 4:40 pm. They had gathered
at pm, in front Of the Cuban Con-
sulate, and after sending one dele
cation to the consul and one, head
ed by Robert Minor, to present de-
mands to Mayor O'Brien, they had
marched all the way from the Bat
terry to Union Square.
Women and Children March
They were soon followed into the
Square by youth contingent of
thousand who had marched down
from Columbus Circle. The National
Student League, the Young Com
munist League, the l. w. o. youth
branches and many others had met
there and exposed the Civilian Con-
servation Camps, and the R. o. 7. c.
in the colleges.
Soon afterward, headed by the w.
I. R. band, 5000 marchers from 7th
Street and Avenue A swung into the
square. In the forefront many
Negroes from the Harlem workers
organizations were to be noticed.
Seven to eight hundred children,
most of them wearing the Pioneer
uniform, and more than a thousand
women of the Women's Councils
were in the line.
The last to reach the square were
5000, chiefly trade union workers,
led by the T. U. U. L. organizations,
who had gathered in Madison Square
to hear Max Bedacht and other
speakers in a preliminary rally.
AS the marching lines converged
into the Square, thousands of other
workers from shops and Offices Joined
the massed demonstrators.
Charles Alexander, Negro repre-
sentative of the New York District
of the Communist Party, opened the
Union Square meeting.
Robert Minor Speaks
Lorenz, Of the Marine Workers
Industrial Union, spoke of the key
role of marine workers in checking
war shipments and preparations. He
was followed by Caccione of the
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League,
who spoke about the million veterans
cut off from compensation, and
about the governments treatment of
the Bonus Marchers.
Robert Minor told of the feverish
preparations for war OF all the great
powers, of the unprecedented naval
budgets of America, Japan, other
countries. He pointed out how Hit
ler's terror regime in Germany,
which rose with the backing of
American and other fnanciers, and
through the treachery of the Social
Democrats sharpens the war danger.
For a period he addressed himself
especially to the Socialist workers in
the crowd, pointing out to them the
role of their leader, and calling on
them to join in the workers strug-
giles against war.
He was followed by Carl Winter of
the Unemployed Councils, Irving
Herman of the Y. c. L., and Donald
Henderson, of the American Com
mittee for Struggle Against War.