New-York tribune., 1919-05-03
Socialist Paper, Assailing
Police Department, Takes
Steps 10 Get Redress for
''Enright's Supineness''
Fighters Are Included
Complaints Dispatched to
Secretaries of War and
Navy About Many Raids

ano mar1NcSs aIlIlOuECeC yeStcAu IAfSs
It w!u press for the prosecution OF
the rtngleadcrs of the rioters.
The announcement. was made In 81
statement issued by the editor OF "Ihe
Call" Charles ". Erwin. The effect
of the riots was felt yesterday at
The "Call" office and at the Rand
School st the school 6 squad of
police were on duty all day, due to
reports that another group of uni
formed men were planning to repeat
she raid
Police Called Supine
In his announcement Mr.. Erwin said:
"'The CALI does not intend to let
this matter drop simply because the
damage has been done and perhaps
ended for the time. It intends to call
Upon the authorities to prosecute not
only the men directly involved in the
rioting on May Day, but also those
higher up who inctted them to this
yioting.
"If the authorities fail to act n the
matter after the proof has been sub
mitted to them, the community will
know that the outrages were possible
only through the supineness of those
who could have prevented them had
they used the power supposed to be
placed in their hands to protect citi-
zens in the exercise Of their rights"
It was also announced at the Call"
Office that kilograms have been dis
patched by the paper to the Secretaries
of War and Navy, calling upon them
to investigate the rioting here on May
Day and take steps to prevent their
repetition.
Girls Suffer Nervous Shock
Three girls, employed in the busi-
ness office OF The New York Call"
suffered from nervous shock as a re-
suit OF the raid. it was announced last
night Miss Leah Kaufman, book
keeper, it was stated, had been blinded
az result of the shock to her nervous
system Her physician, however, held
out hope that her injury would prove
20 he only temporary. The other two
younug women who suffered from the
raid are Miss Lillian Popkin and Miss
Becky johnson, both of whom are i'll.
Enright Blamed
Both at the "Call" Office and the Of
fee of the Socialist Party 7 East
Fifteenth Street. it was declared by Of
fcials that Thursdays rioting will be
brought to the attention Of tho party's
attorneys and special committee of
the party and steps Will be taken to
70 bo To-
bsr, secretary of the Socialist Par1x.
issued q statement in which he blamed
The rioting on the indifference of the
Police Department and warned that the
continuation IF such disorders would
lead to serious developments in the
future. He said:
The behavior of the soldiers and
sailors on May first was disgrace to
New York City.
II will not charge the individual po-
hqemen with failing to do their duty
know that individual policemen viii
90 their duty, but the policemen are
guided by the spirit of their superiors
ard the spirit em2nating from Police
Headquarters and from City Hall is
sutn that the police do not know what
To- do. They cannot afford to offend
their superiors, and there is no doubt
that the men higher up in the depart
Ioent are not eager to proceed against
.she offenders.
Retaliation Hinted
The police may have been caught
'uisawares in one place, but when a mob
goes rom place to place an massed
1otmatiou and the police make no at
,enlpr 70 dlsperse or arrest them, when
AZ the newspapers seem to know the
leaders Of the mob and there is no at
1enapt made to apprehend them, some
thfng is wrong somewhere.
tBut the authorities are playing with
hre. those now give these tactics SUD
pat because it is breaking up Social
!at meetings and invading SocialiB,
2eadquarters, may find the mob some
cay turn and Invade the Union League
or similar clubs OF the rich. This mob
becoming used 10 breaking heads with
out fear OF puniohment and destroy-
ing property because It Is that Of the
Sociaitsta, may we'll iearn that they
II DO similar things to the rich.
=" hat Will our Mayor and his Police
commissioners do then?
The Socialists do not believe In
u violence. We believe In law and order
bit wc want II applied to all classes
W all ucen, high or low
Lar the authorities remember that
those who sow wind Win reap the
Loa1wor1cers In RaDEs
AZ the oiee Of the local Government
loan Organization, 11s3 Broadway. il
gas admitted yesterday by severs.l OF
sec workers there that they partici-
paEed Ia the rfoting at the Rand School
ard ~The Call" Office.
Among these was Leon G. Levinthal
't Washington Heights, who said:
We were not going to be fooled By
.ne statement OF some Of the police
tua: 20 Bolshevik speeches were beinp .
Asds at the places we visited. VIZ
sItew tasy were going TO be made and
w got togcthsr our men ana cleaned
them up"
rhother who approved Of tho riotinp
sN supported the uniformed men va
yg2Sspn stack, of $40 East 170tk Street
~ n;efexl2 aegaiicd the police ror at.
s@ESahE and disperging the uniformed
n.sn az Madison Square Garden Thurs.
" evening and charged that the police
sefNo with unjustiAod brutality stacl
s Formerly an inspector of uniforms
II AN@ Ecverpuent and had been an
I've WORKER In all Liberty Loan cam.
pIyns and for tho Red Cross. uc
sy1 Sns IRE of the uniformed men was
ywvoSea by nm editorial publixhed In
.he -. snhrch'st Yaper, "Freedorn," againn,
dstnvrogpy r.rs"ly a. loan, and The rnen were
sr1esn@d s's'rd ITO get even with the Eol-