The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1917-07-05
RIOTS BREAK Up
SOCIALIST PARADE
Boston Peace Demonstration
Ends In Flight.
MANY ARRESTS ARE MADE

Promoted by Socialist Branches Or
eanIxed Under Name Of Workmsn's
Council In Imitation Of Council In
Russla to Work to Same Ends.
Boston, Mass, July "A Socialist
parade& which was announced az p
peace demonstration. was attended by
riotousE scenes here. The ranks Of
the makchers were broken up by self
organized squads of uniformed SOL
diers and sailors. red flags and ban
ners bearing socialistic notices were
trampled on. and literature and furn-
ishings in the Socialist headquarters
in park square were thrown into the
street and burned. Police reserves
stopped the. rieting after 1t 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 that we're waged on the
common and in the line Of parade on
fremont street, while agents Of the
federal department of Justice, under
the direction Of Dis .rict Attorney
Goldberg, arrested in the crowd a
number OF persons who we're alleged
to have made unpatrictic remarks in
the heat of conflict. None of the sol
diers and sailors who figured in the
disturbance was arrested.
The procession. which consisted Of
hundreds of men and women. many Of
whom carried babies, formed in Park
Square and, passing through Eliot
street. marched along fremont, one
division going to the baseball ground
on the common. where a meeting had
been arranged. and another proceed
ing 10 Scollay Square. Most Of the
marchers carried small red fiags with
white centers. emblematic OF the
peace demonstration and there were
large banners bearing inscriptions,
some OF which read: Russia has a
sixhour day. Why not American!
and Liberty Loan first mortgage
on labor" A large American nag
was at the head OF the procession.
Half q hundred men in the uniform
Of naval reservists. national guards
men marines and Canadian "kilties"
who had watched the formation OF the
parade marched across the common In
q double column and intercepted the
procession at West and fremont
streets, and again at Winter and Tre-
mont. In host instances the contac;
resulted In a street night. Blows were
exchanged and tags were snatched
from the hands OF the marchere, while
women In the line screamed In fright.
At scoilay Square there was simi-
lar scene The band was forced TO
play The Star-Spangled Banner,
while cheer were given for the flag
The police had Just succeeded In
quieting tbs disturbance when the
reserves were called out to ouell an
inci pient riot at the meeting place on
the common. The first of the peace"
speakers Rad barely begun his re-
marks when the reserves arrived.
Meanwhile the Socialist headquart-
ers In Park Square had been racked
and its contents destroyed by hon
fire. The American flag taken from
the paraders was placed over statue
Of Lincoln the Emancipator." near
the scene Of the bonfire. The demon.
stration was organized at conference
Of Socialist branches, labor unions
and workmAn's benefit societies Of the
metropolitan district. acting under the
name of the Workmen's Council, In
imitation OF the Council OF Workmen
and Soldiers OF Russia II was an
nounced that the organization repre-
scented 10000 workingmen, and that
its program would include the peace
terms OF the Russian workmen. no
forcible annexation. no punitive In
IDENTITIES and free development Of all
uaAtona