Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-01
SOCIALISTS
CONTINUE
AGITATION
CROWDS CHEER FOR FREEDOM
OF SPEECH
WOMAN ARRESTED AFTER ROUGH
EXPERIENCE
Police Show Great Reluctance to Take
Mrs. shuck into Custody After
She speaks--Two Meet
ings Dispersed


For the first time in the history OIL
Los Angeles the revolutlohaIy ny Ill lna,.'
..NTarseiliaise"--5O voices strong-was
sung by marchers on Spring street iast
night. 10
The famous hymn was taken up as
fhe hand of Socialists, idle lahorers ano
s.bread liners'' marched from bFanhai'
street to Fifth and Los Angeles streees,
augmented as the procession marcneu
down Spring street. until fuiiy ooov
Voices at one time Joined in the cnorus,
The demonstration was prous,tn.
about by the campaign for tree spseo"
which has continued several weeksa
Mingled with the chorus of husky
s,ngers were loud cries of Free
sneechp' the slogan of the SOCIALISTS
who recently have been arrested Wheh-
ever they have attempted TO opserfe
Y,rivilege whicl their members claim 80
Guaranteed by the federal constitution,
AZ the crowd of marchers progressed
toward Fifth street many pedestrians
along the sidewalks, who seemed 70 pe
come enthused by their singing, Joaiieu
the procession. +,,o,r
intention of endeavoring again to speak
al FRANKLIN and Broadway, but the
crowd that gathered there ahead OF
the speakers evidently mlstook tne
oF6wd-among whom were several Wo-
,oen-waiting at the corner of Temple
street and Broadway for bread, soup
and free beds as the place for the 80
o:alhst meeting, and so dispersed 70
esther ut the bread line. BY this time
thr desfit,1te crowd at this place has
heen fed and .oinec in with the Social
lets lust as the latter began their
sz,aaking at FRANKLIN street, one block
ia the sOuth.
All together the crowd at Temple
straet moved down to join the Socialists
and arrived as the police arrived on
the scene and arrested w. q. Wooapy'
n we'll known negro writer and speaker,
who was proclaiming the principles OF
Socialism % a crowd of several nun
dred curious CT sympathetic aditors'
sinq Revolutionary Song
AS woodby was arrested the crowd
ioined in a slight, though not serious
demonstration, crying vigorously:
"Cive us free soup! Give us work anu
vagesi Give us free speech! Fret
speech!" etc. Then suddenly the croWo
ioined Justify in the strains OF the
'Marseillaise.'
For a time it was feared there would
ha violence. as several outside specta-
+ors became incensed at what tney al
legged was the rough treatment accoru-
cd nv the police to Mrs Jesse Shuck OF
SIX linden street, who attempted to ad-
dress the crowd, following the arrest
OF Woodby.
The police at the Franklin street oe-
monstration did not use their clups,
INT lxent them in hand. The policy of
arresting the women speakers seemed
70 have been resorted to last night only
aftar considerable hesitation, as Mrs.
Sbuclx repeatedly invited arrest in or
der 10 strcngthen the Socialists con-
tantion for free speech, but as repeat
ealv were her invitations ignored until
finally. in the subsequent meetlnS al
Fifth and LOS Angeles, as IL no longer
desiring to ignore a public Dare the
officers took her to the central pOaice
station where she was released on SlOo
bail. only to appear at Mercantile place
q little later to speak again
The first speaker in the assembiage
81 E'ranI<lin and Broadway was Wel
luown pioneer of Southern California
7, IT. Fisher, 78 years old, at one time
editor and proprietor of the Santa
Monica outlook and prominent men,
her of the local Typographical union.
Neqro Speaker cheered
The crowd cheered the aged speaker
rcpeatedly, ar as The cheers Increased
tie crowd of listeners grew greater,
Until the narrow thoroughfare was
r ,,,nleteIy filled from Broadway to
Spring street.
II am an old man. boys" said Fish
er. land I'VE worked hard since / was
10 wears old. I've never been drunk
ard or a dssipator, but in spite Of over
II rec score years of hard work l am
oor man. What is the matter? 1t is
merely that while have. been Shaving
somebody has been getting what l
earned"
At this juncture somebody yelled,
Here come the Cossaess!" referring
TO the police, but the latter, who APP
peared at the corner of New High
street a short distance away, did not
come on to the meeting, but turned
around the corner out of sight.
The old man resumed his speech,
which ended as a crowd of about 200
MEN, constituting the soup-and-bed line
a block further north came dowp
broadway and joined the gathering.
Woodby, the negro, then made ten
,nsnule speech, momentarly expecting
the arrival of the police. He was also
cneered at every reference TO what he
termed 'plutocracy" and municipal
autocracy' (referring in the latter
rhrase to Mayor Harpers refusal to
issue street speaking permits), and was
i,dulging i'm vigorous criticism of
tubic Officials, whom he said were
supposed to be public servants,
O ected by the people to serve the peo-
rle. but who" he said, are in reality
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