Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-12-27
.I.rDs~ CAUSE ROT
Protest Parade Brings Clashes With
Police. ia


New York. Dec. 26.--Scores were
hurt Christmas when fully 1000
''reds," marching up Fifth avenue as
a protest against the United States
deporting extreme radicals. were
scattered again and again as squads
of mounted police charged the pa
raiders, who would scatter only to re-
form their line and march on.
Shouting threats against tho gov
eminent and the police, singing the
"Intarnationale," the men and women
started their march from Washing
ton Square, and It was not until they
had reached Thirty-seventh street
that a battalion managed tor out The
marchers by a vigorous use OF night
sticks. A dozen arrests were made.
One young woman. screaming and
fighting, was dragged by half doz-
en- policemen from the Brick Presby-
terrain church at Thirty-seventh
street when she tried to lead about
twenty other "reds" into the church
and flaunt a banner calling. upon the
government to free political prison
ers.
Her demonstration broke up the
evening services In the edifice.
ii, She gave her name as Gladys
Skinner, OF Clifford, Nd, and when
two. policemen dragged the girl into
the police station in the neighbor-
1oed Of the church she screamed that
she .defied the police, the whole state
fnd the nation, even, tosprevent her
from fighting for political amnesty,
Trouble started soon after the
marchers left the Rev. DR.. Percy
Grant Stickney's Church of the AS.
cension at Fifth avenue, near Wash.
fngton Square.
'sThe reds marched single file, so as
to claim legally they were not hold.
Ing a parade. But at Fourteenth
street they began marching abreast
and 1t was then that the mounted
police dashed from a. cross street
scattering the mob like "a dance OF
flies. ~... "a
d Blows. oaths, screams :. and yells
ensued as some Of the radicals
fought back. Down came the night
sticks and many a red" dropped
One policeman grabbed a large
American flag being carried by the
NOV. VI. " IAoWCh,f w hoNl1Cus 1hICS
women sprang upon the policeman
and fought like the three furies
themselves to regain the flag. The
police captured~it -
In the meantime half the radicals
had scattered into the throngs OF
spectators banking both sides OF
Fifth avenue, some Of whom shouted
encouragement to the police, while
others jeered and hooted.
The radicals reformed their lines
further up Fifth avenue and then an
other battle began as they persisted
in their march.
Don't stopn'' shrieked the Shrinel
girl. keep on. comrades. Free
DOM"
The Rev. Mr.. Howell had crept
back into the ranks. He took an.
other flag-this time banner pro-
claiming, Down With Autocracy,'
and ran alongside Miss Shriner. The
two headed the march. r'.-.
The final scrimmage came at the
Brick Presbyterian church. The
-Shriner girl stopped, grabbed a flag
broke thru those surrounding her
and dashed up the church steps.
Freedom, freedom, freedom
was her battle cry.
(. Behind her pelted a score OF
.g'reds." They. broke thru the heavy
church portals. The organ stopped
suddenly. The frightened congre'
CATION half arose. Before she could
do more the police had burst in also
and were showing out the radicals
Miss Shriner screaming as the police
almost picked her up and rushed her
out.