New-York tribune., 1918-12-13
Radicals Defy Police to
Stop s'Friday 13th'' Walk
Through Central Park
Now U. S. Rule Decreed
ellis @. Jones ''Ousts'' All
Officials, Cancels Debts,
declares Laws Nulliied

/ hold their predlc'eo i'u"' Va"
AV' ,ssr.+;on in Central Park to-day
w. ,ol;ce have announced that tn
..,s. will not be permitted to parade
,'..l;rg for the committee which /:
1.na;np the demonstration, Ellis o
,.rs. said yesterday that the radicals
srs mot going to parade; they were
w.. oong to walk through the pars
r;.h Grape on their arms
y. eomplicate the situation still fur
..,r a proclamation was issued yes
..,asv at The Peoples House, Eas
v;,,s.nth Street, announcing that th'
,;ritsd States was in a state of Boil
.h.v;sm and that all public Offices were
I..,ared vacant. all debts cancelled
and all laws abolished.
y The proclamation follows:
Proclamation
Friday, the thirteenth of December
,o,s 70 o'clock noon, will mark thu
,.einning Of he rule of the workers
!, the United States of America.
4Eu order that this may be accom-
,,ished with the minimum of friction
n rules and regulations laid down b!
..,;tslists must first be totally disre
grded
Tt is therefore proclaimed:
a. That all debts, public and pri-
vate. are cancelled.
a2. That all leases, contracts, IN
dentures and similar instruments,
,roducts of capitalism, are null and
void.
aa All statutes, ordinances and
other enactments of capitalist gov
eminent are repealed.
q. All public Offices are declared
vacant.
* The military and naval or
eani,ations will Immediately dis
soIys end reorganize themselves
uoon democratic basis for speedy
aemobilization.
&C. All working class and political
prisoners will De Immediately freed
and all indictments quashed.
II 81 All vacant and unused Land
shall Immediately revert to the peo-
ple and remain common property un-
til suitable regulations for its DIS
position can be made.
"s. All telephones, telegraphs' ca
bles. railroads, steamship lines ana
other means Of communication and
transportation shall be Immediately
taken over by the workers and treat
Cd henceforth as the property OF the
people.
"s. As speedily as possible the
workers in the various industries
will proceed to take over these in
dtstrles and organize them in the
spirit Of the new epoch now pegln-
II ming.
10. The flag of the new society
shall be plain red, marking, our unity
4 and brotherhood with similar repup-
lies in Russia, Germany, Austria and
elsewhere
ISSUED in New York City, by order Of
THE PEOPLES DAY COMMlTIEE.
ellis o. Jones, Chairman.
+ "Note-Stenographers, printers and
others having access to mimeograpns'
multigraphs, presses. ETC.. are re-
quested to reproduce the above in
great quantities, preferably in red
ink, and scatter them broadcast and
post in conspicuous places"
Call Is Printed in Red
4 Small circulars printed in red AM
announcing the Central Park demon
straton continued to be distributed a
coyertly as possible throughout tn
+ Me IN Central Park, Friday the Thir
ss Free" and "The' Whistles Will BLOW
lof the workers, Friday, the Thlr
teenth."
i Friday the 18th of December, 1915
q o'clock noon, will mark the begin
nnng OF the rule of the workers in tn
United States of America.
Z !, IN order that this may be accom-
nshed with the minimum Of friction
oil rules and regulations laid down b.
CAPITALISTS must first be totally disre
garded."
mr. Jones, who, when not engineer
,as demonstrations, is connected wit
NC @s Rand School of Social Science, an
sssahced, IN discussing the demonstra
sson. SM Yesterday, that the people wer
-'Wu. IN, 10 show their teeth"
"a. iney have stood all they can." h
a.a s,marked This affair is to be an un
,;0a ,;sahlzed demonstration of indigna
avn avn az the progress of events durin
sao saa since the war. There are thirty
tbs members to our committee, but fo
ths;. present they are not giving ou
'aeir names.
=. Red Flags Authorized
nl.a NED flags will, perhaps, be dis
n ss,asso T. ss IN the park. Those who wis
hy NV" nv" them are authorized so to
win Ie committee. |. expect that ther
nsls 1e million or a million and
90, au, demonstrators.
at Nv we are just going into the parks
tbernse ne place in particular-just goin
mi. 70 mingle. We don't need a pc,
pona :" 90 that, and have asked fc
becsrs we selected Friday, the 13tl
mnsJse mat was the day set for tn
ktss.SSe OF Tom Mooney by the capita
were @0 youths, Woodinsky and Siege
pa;n. arrested Yesterday on the con
liSth % 81 Gentry Walburn, of 400 Yves
ds,rmi. street, who charged them wit
hi, ni,''p,rrtlng ,r1ng circulars without a pei
eeivsa ne men said that they had re
! soms su the red-inked summonses frol
4 dist; one else, and that they were ne
each h'pbut'ng them. They were fined s
Cour, W Magistrate Brough in Nigh
4 the Nsus ses; GERBER executive secretary c
II terdswv ovelaiist 1t party in Manhattan, yes
any W.. uehicd his organization was !
stsasi"aas concerned with the demon