The sun., 1919-11-02
POLICE THWART
VIOLENCE HERE
BY COMMUNISTS
Arrests Bare Anarchist
Plot to Force Clash
With Authorities.
RUTGERS SQUARE SCENE
Women and Children Told to
Keep Away-50,000 Secret
Circulars.
RUTGERS SQUARE SCENE

Plans for a mass peeting of Red:
to have been held next Saturday ir
Rutgers square and at which violenct
was to have met any attempt at inter
police yesterday through the seizure
of a mass of anarchist literature an6
the arrest of two men who are charged
with printing and distributing II.
The literature consists of more thar
10000 circulars bearing the mark OF
the Communist Party of America ant
was seized when two secret printing
establishments. one in Eldridge street
and the other in Fifth street, were
raided. The circulars were of three
kinds. One announced the proposed
mass meeting; another called upon all
genuine Socialists in this country to
take part in a revolution, and the
third called upon them to boycott the
coming elections. The men arrested
are Maurice Nessim of 10 Essex street
and Benjamin Toback of 102 East
Fourth street.
The arrests and the seizure OF
propaganda were made by members OF
the Bomb Squad, headed by Detective
Sergeant James j. Gegan, working
under the direction of Deputy Com
missioner William ]. Iahey. There
was seized also a mailing list con-
tanning more than 10000 names which
are thought to be those of anarchists
The list contains names of men To-
Gated in. cities all over the United
States and Commissioner Lahey re-
CARDS it as the most valuable piece of
paper which has come into his DOS
session in many a day.
Nessim and Toback are being held on
charges of criminal anarchy. They
were wary when questioned after their
arrest, but let slip certain bits of infor-
nation which caused the members of
the raiding party to congratulate them
selves on having made the raid and ar
rests before the projected mass meeting
next Saturday.
barred Women and Children.
One thing they cleaned was that those
invited to Rutgers square had been eau
toned not to bring women or children
with them Another was that during
the meeting pickets were to watch its
progress from the roofs of buildings fac
ing the square. The police said yester-
day that they had no doubt but that
anarchist apples" or small hand bombs.
would have been thrown from the roofs
had the meeting taken place and the DO
lice attempted to break it up. They con-
Eder that the warning against women
and children being brought to the meet
ing was in anticipation of a clash be-
tween the Reds and the police.
The handbillS of invitation IN fba
meeting stated that 1t would be held in
celebration of the second anniversary of
the Bolshevist revolution In Russia. The
bills invited ''workingmen and comrades
to come in thousands and strike on No
vember s."
The propagandist circulars inviting
all good Socialists to take part in a
revolution were headlined, "A Challenge. /"
and explained that now that we have a
real revolutionary party duty falls
upon us-action. Since the reign of the
Russian Government was ended at the
hands of the Bolshevists, a conmotion
FOR revolutionary Socialism began to
take place all over the world, and in
America more than anywhere else, this
Hommotion took on an organized form
our programme is as revolutionary
as can be. We are working day and
night TO bring about a revolutions ry pro-
gramme in this land Of ours. but we
alone can not do the work. Remember
comrades, that our leaders do not want
merely verbal answer from you. They
want action. They want you to under
stand that this is not the moment to
shrink You must devote lots of your
time and energy TO the achievement Of
our purpose, which is an establishment
OF dictatorship OF the proletariat"
ChallenEe by "Left WinR.n