The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-02
BattaIiOns
OF Workers
In Parade
M inor, Krumb lin
And Others Speak at
Union Square

NEW YORK.-In t h g
greatest August First demon
stration ever held in this city,
more than 10000 workers
raised their voices in militant
protest against imperialist war
and fascism when they gath
cred at Union Square late Yesterday
afternoon.
At p m, one half hour before
the demonstration was called. thou
sands of workers were already
crowding into Union Square with
banners and placards calling for
militant struggle against imperialist
war and fascism and for the release
Of Ernst Thaelmann, Angelo Hern-
don, Tom Mooney and other class
war prisoners.
At the time the Daily Worker was
going to press thousands more were
still marching into the Square with
bands playing.
Carrying banners of their organ
izations and waving placards de-
nouncing imperialist war and fas-
cisn, thousands Of workers marched
into the Square singing the Inter
national" and other revolutionary
songs.
From all parts of the city they
marched Most Of them came with
their trade union groups and mass
organizations. Others came individ-
ually. All came imbued with a spirit
of struggle, determined to fight the
dogs of war and fascism.
Militant Spirit
This spirit of struggle was re-
f1ected in every phase of the DEM
onstration-in the marching work
ers, the banners, placards. and in
the speeches of the veterans of
hundred class skirmishes who spoke
at the Square. AS part of a world
wide protest Of workers and farmers
against imperialist war, it struck
a mighty blow into the hearts Of
the militarists and fascists.
The main speaker of the day,
Robert Minor, veteran working class
leader, received a great roar of APP
plause when he rose to speak into
the amplifer. Speaking in the
name of the Central Committee of
the Communist Party, he called for
a united struggle against impe-ial-
ist war and fascism.
Among the other speakers were
Charles Krumbein, district organizer
of the Communist Party, Roy Hud-
son, national secretary Of the Ma
rine Workers Industrial Union,
Richard B. Moore, acting organizer
of the International Labor Defense,
Rose Wortis, assistant secretary of
the Trade Union Unity Council, and
John Little, district organizer of the
Young Communist League.
Score LaGuardia Program
Speakers scored the LaGua-dia
program fol- fascisizing the New
1Olh bldOe uiAVhiS anu METEOROLOGICAL
the militarization of the police for
use against striking workers.
They bitterly attacked the lib
ersla Roosevelt government as the
greatest war-making regime in the
history of the United States and
urged the mightiest struggle against
the N. R. A. and the te-roristic
methods of johnson, Perkins and
others of their ilk
From early afternoon yesterday
Communist Party Sections began to
modified workers Of the neighbour
hoods to come down to the DEM
onst-ation at Union Square. The
section of the lower East Side led
several hundred workers through
the downtown streets. In other sec
tons thousands Of leaflets were
distributed.
Trade union members and unor-
ganized workers were modified by
the Needle Trades Workers Indus
trial Union, the Food Workers IN
dust-ial Union, the Marine Workers
Industrial Union, various indepen-
dent unions and mass organizations
and the Workers E-Servicemen's
League