Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-11-19
NO PLACE FOR REDS
Soldiers and Sailors Break Up So.
CIaliStic Parade
FIGHTING TINE ON FIFTH AVENUE

Brq Crowd of Foreign Element Seeks
to Celebrate Success of Radical
Revolution In Germany, and Soldiers
and Sailors Undertake to Put Down
All But American Flags.
Ncw York World.
About four thousand Socialists were
marching mp tIith .\venu" last niEht
toward Carnegie Hall to celebrate
Tho Socialist I, vUlutiUn III Germany
when at 45th street four OF them
waving red RAGS abov" their h'ads'
shouted. Down with miiitarism.
Down with sOldiery!"
They picked had spot. for on IN"
sidewalk five or six privatos of tn"
Tnitr. states Transport S"rri"' w"r"
watching the parade.
Down with those red tags! cried
a strapping member of the soldiery'
There's only one flag to b" carried IN
this country now"
Women Attack Soldiers.
The Socialists jcercd and repeated:
"l>own with militarism!"
THAT Was sufficient tor the boys in
div. drab. They sailed into that par
ticular section OF IN" parade ripped
away every red flag they could lay
their hands on. broke the stick ana
threw the bunting on the asphalt.
The paraders swarmcd about tn"
L. 4
punched and kicked at them: the wo-
men comrades" screamed ana tnr'
at The. soldiers hair and clothing.
There were hundred Reds trying to
get al the soldiers. But the trans
port men battered their way out OF the
circle, lust as there was cry OF:
Here We come fellows" and three
hluciaCkcts from the Navy Yard cut
into the frav. bent on the rescue of
the Army men.
That was the beginning Of riot
that extended up Fifth Avenue To 57th
street and across that thoroughfare
10 the doors OF Carnegie Hall.
Soldiers and Sailors seemed to
sprinp from everywhere. They COM
mandccrcd automobiles going north
ward along the avenue. and when
ever they saw a man in khaki or in
blue they would yell: "llcy. i"lla' or
Hey, shlpmatc. Come on! Down with
those dirty red flags"
There were hundreds of soldiers anu
sailors gathered In no time. From
block 10 block they would jump from
their machines. order the Reds 10
lower their banners, and II they rcfus-
ed (Which they generally did-and the
women most violently the fighting
men would tear their flags from their
hands and trnmple upon them.
+. sa, Army to Navy's Aid.
n$af6ig the line there%ns the
livelicst kind OF fighting. AZ 4Sth
street, lone bluciacket was knocked
down and surrounded by three para
dcrs. who apparently were about TO
kick him when q young Second Lieu
tenant whipped Off his topcoat. handed
Il 10 the girl he was walking WITH
and went to the sailors aid.
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