The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-02
PEACE" PARADE A RIOT.
Soldiers and Sailors Broke Up Demon
stration in Boston.

Boston, July 2.-Riotous scenes at
tended a Socialist parade yesterday
which was announced as a peace dem.
onstration. The ranks of the marchers
were broken up by self.organized squads
of uniformed soldiers and sailors, red
| flags and banners bearing Socialist mot
toes were trampled on, and literature
| and furnishings in the Socialist head
quarters in Park square were thrown
into the street and burned. Police re-
serves stopped the rioting after it had
been in progress an hour and half.
Many arrests were made.
The police took into custody some of
the participants in hundreds OF fist fights
which were waged on the common and
in the line OF the parade along fremont
street to Soollay square, while agents of
the federal department of justice under
the direction of Asst. Dist. Atty. Gold.
berg arrested in the crowd a number of
persons who were alleged to have made
unpatriotic remarks in the heat OF con-
fiet. None of the soldiers and sailors
who figured in the disturbance were ar
rested.
The procession, which consisted OF hun
dreds of men and women, many of whom
carried babies, formed in Park square,
and passing through Eliot street,
marched along fremont street, one divi-
sion going to the baseball ground on the
common, where meeting had been ar
ranged, and another proceeding to Scol
lay square. Most of the marchers car.
ried small red flags with white centers
emblematic of the peace demonstration
and there were large banners bearing in
scriptions, some of which read:
Russia has a six hour day. Why not
America" and Liberty Loan First
Mortgage of Labor"
A large American flag was at the head
OF the procession.
Half hundred men in uniform of ma
val reservists, national guardsmen and |
Canadian "kilties," who had watched the |
formation of the parade, marched across
the common in a double column and in
tercepted the procession at the corner of |
West and fremont streets and again at |
the corner of Winter and fremont |
streets. In both instances the contact
resulted in a street fight. Blows were
exchanged and flags were snstehed from
the hands of the marchers, while women
in the line screamed with fright.
At Scollsy square there was similar
scene. The big American flag at the
read of the line was seized by the uni
formed party and the band, which had
been playing the "Marseillaise," with
,ome interruptions, was forced to play
The Star Spangled Banner" while
.heers were given for the flag.
The police had just succeeded in quiet
ng this disturbance when the reserves
we're called out to quell near riot at
he meeting place on the common. The
rst of the peace" speakers had barely
'egun his remarks when the reserves ar
ived. They formed a circle in the :
rowd, with the police wagon in front of I
he speakers stand, but in spite of their !
resence there were scores of individual
ghts in the crowd. To restore quiet,
upt. Crowley, as acting police commits
ioner, revoked the permit for the speak
ng and the meeting was called off.
Meanwhile the Socialist headquarters {
4 Park square had been ransscked, and
IS contents destroyed in a bonfire. The
american flag taken from the paraders =
'as placed over a statue of Lincoln the l
near the scene of the bon : :
re
The peace demonstration was organ
ed at conference of Socialist branches,
Ibor unions and workmen's benefit so
sties Of the metropolitan district, act =
" under the name of the Women's
ouncil in Imitation of the Council OF
Iorkmen and Soldiers of Russia.
1t was announced that the organiza
on represented 10000 working men and
lat its program would include the peace o
rms Of the Russian workmen-no fore
le annexations, no punitive indemnities
ID free development of all nations.
Among the speakers who were an q
,unced as on the program for the meet p
z on the common were James H. Maur- n
president Of the Pennsylvania Fedora G
Dn Of Labor; J. Edward Morgan Of san Il
-sncisco. representing thwe Mooney de- d
nse movement; James O'Nesl state "a
cretary Of the Socialist party, and Jo- is
ph Murphy Of Lowell b