Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-26

Hundreds Engage
in Red Flag Riot
in New York City

New York Nov. 26.-A thousand
soldiers. sailors and marines broke
through a Gordon of police sur
rounding Madison Square garden
last night and attacked internation-
al Socialists who had attended a
mass meeting at which BOlsheyill
doctrines were expOunded.
The men and women leaving the
hall broke and fed as the men in
uniform charged past the police, but
were pursued into the side streets
IN all directions
shortly after the mass meeting
opened four men and two women
we're arrested for displaying red
flags.
We have business here tonight
we do not want to duplicate the
Flanders battIcfield.' shouted Scott
Nearing in an effort 10 restore or
der
\ declaration for international
Socialism was made by Nearing fol
lowing the arrest of four persons
charged with disOrderly conduct for
displaying a red banner with the
inscription. Withdraw the troops
from Russia"
The meeting was called Ostensibly
to protest against the execution Of
Thomas J. Mooney. but Scott Near
ing. who presided. and the other
speakers devoted most Of their at
tention to pleas for the release Of
political offenders"
Several men and women were ar
rested for displaying red flags
smuggIed into the garden in def
ance o. an edict by Mayor Hylan.
Large mum bers Of men in uni
form entered the building before
the doors were locked with the
avowed determination of preventing
attacks upon the government.
/ They were restrained with diff
/ Guilty by police and detectives from
making an assault on the stage.
] Scores Of fist fights were interrupt
ed by officers.
/ Soldiers and sailors who were un-
able to get in sent out patrols to
round up all the men in uniform
who could be found to go in on the
charge on the Socialists which had
been planned TO take place when
the OratOry was ended and the In
ternatiOnalists started for their
homes
Madison square was the rallying
point for the military. They quick
/ " staged an impromptu mass meet
ing. at which speakers denounced
the "Bulsheviki." They were
cheered not only blythe men in UNI
form bu. rv civilian sympathfze-s
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Awe~irave" 10 charge the garden
and attack the internati0nalists
several hundred responded. They
were driven back, however. by
mounted police auG men on foot
( who had surrounded the building.
| Realizing that they had failed in
the first attack the soldiers and
! sailors resumed their meeting and
awaited the arrival Of reinforce
ments. Probably one thousand
men of both branches Of the ser
vice had assembled by the time the
meeting adjourned
More than one hundred thousand
members Of the AmaIgamatef Cloth
ing Workers Of America viii con
duct demonstration" in the Unit
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