The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-15
RED FLAG WAVED
BY WORKERS
Police clashed With |. w M. Men,
bers During Demonstration for
the Lawrence Strike
Leaders.
BEN R1ETMANN THERE
American Banners Placed in the Rear
While Some Fiery Speeches
Were Made to the
Crowd.
BEN RIETMANN THERE

Were Made to the
Crowd. /
limited Press Leased Wire Service. !
4 NEW YORK, Sept. 14.-Serious
clashes between the police and thous-
ands of members of, and sympathizers
with the Industrial Workers of the
World, were narrowly averted during
the big demonstration of protest
against the further Imprisonment OF
Ettor and Giovannitti, the Lawrence.
Mass, labor leaders, held here tonight.
AS it was, a red bag, carried by Fred
Consiglio, was wrested from him by
police under the command of Captain
Daley, and the marchers were so
threatening that the police at Fifth
avenue and Edghty-third street had
their revolvers and riot sticks ready
for use.
The demonstration In Union Square
was preceded by double parade, one
division starting from the Labor
Temple in East Eighty-fourth street
and marching down Fifth avenue and
the other starting from Seward Park
and Canal street and marching up
| town. The two divisions united at
i Union Square where the paraders
were addressed by VIM. D. Haywood,
Ben. Reitmann, Miss Mary Dreier,
and others. All of the speeches were
Iof the most bitter character and open
!. threats Of reprisal were made if EFT
tor. and GiovanEitti are not given 9
speedy trial.
Although the paraders carried Amer
lean flags as well as red flags draped
with black, when they reached Unior
Square, Reitmann had all the Ameri
can flags gathered up and relegated tc
i the rear, while he ordered the meI
with the crimson standards to mass III
front of the speakers stand Wher
demonstrated with for this actor
Reitmann. who was tarred and feath
cred and branded with the insignia
"I. w. W." at San Diego, shouted:
1.-The American flag has been con
: demned by everyone who stands fo'
justice. In San Diego they made mi
: kiss that flag and branded me on m.
bare back. Our red and black fla!
: now stands for all that the American
flag once did,
Miss Dreier, who was one of tn
progressive delegates at large from
!. New York to the recent Chicago cor
vention and is one of the best know
4 workers in the cause of unionism TO
women, in her speech referred to tn
/ growth of unionism among the won
i en- workers and then said:
n You people are of that spirit c
justice that fought our first revolution
l. This demonstration is one form c
o that spirit. Every man, woman an
8 child in America should have justice
e Ettor and Giovannitti are innocer
r men, charged with having murdere
l. one of their sisters. They have bee
d held in Jail eight months. We mus
# let the people of Massachusetts kno
@ that we are watching this case and il
4 tend to see that justice is done"
d. Haywood in his speech declare
t, that although the laws of Mass
ic chusetts provide that no person a
cused of crime shall be held long
#. than six months without a trial, TIL
III the two Lawrence labor leaders ha'
s. now been in Jail eight months with l
ae promise that they will soon be relea
is ed He then said
to These men committed no erin
but they did commit an often
I'd against capitalism. They forced ca
Ie- ital to pay s15,000,0o0 additional
n the workers of New England and
ar give decent working conditions al
shorter hours to the workers. Y
ge plead guilty to that, and declare til
a capital-hired tools carried dynamite
is a crowded district, and planted
rs. among women and children. TIL
had done it before, but this time
to- got the goods on them.
ss- "If Ettor and Giovannitti die, the
will be more work for the undert;
er, but it will not be among the wo
ers, remember that. You have say
Nv. my life, and you will save the lily
re. of these men if you will only sta
I'D shoulder to shoulder in this fight
10 Among the banners carried we
,st some with the following Inscription
80 Remember San Diego
he "A liberty loving people will not
no labor leaders be railroaded to the ell
"A trio chair
do Capitalism would make a strike
,as crime
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