The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-02
Rand School and Other
Nests of Anarchy Are
Wrecked by MObs.
SOLDIERS FIGHT POLICE
Service Men Charge Door of
Madison Square Garden
to Stop Meeting.
RAID THE "CALL" OFFICE
Scores Of BOlshevist Agitators
Punched and Kicked Into
the Street.
SOLDIERS FIGHT POLICE
RAID THE "CALL" OFFICE

New York's first May Day since
the war ended and the Bolsheyiki
started to paint the sky n more lurid
red was a series of battles between
soldiers, sailors and marines on the
one hand and the police and United
States Provost Guard on the other.
About thousand young men in
the national uniform charged about
town, breaking up or trying to break
up meetings of Socialists celebrating
their international holiday. In some
cases they invaded buildings. smashed
furniture and drove the frightened
internationalists into the streets.
The climax of the rumpus was
reached last night in the vicinity of
Madison Square Garden. More ttan
thousand policemen and 200 MEM
bers OF the Provost Guard were bent
on keeping the soldiers and their
friends out of the Garden, where Mrs.
Thomas ]. Mooney, Dudley Field
Malone Rabbi Judah L. Magnes and
others talked q; Mooney protsst
mass meeting, which adopted resolu-
tions calling for series of genera,
strikes. beginning on July 4 and con.
tinulng indefinitely. unless Mooney,
now in prison under life sentence.
either gets freedom or n new trial.
Ihe service men swarmed down
Madison avenue anc were stopped by
charges OF police, mounted and on
foot, Mt Twenty street,
Driven back up the avenue, they we're
herded through the side streets, and
IN turmoil Of plungng horses and
nying nlghtsticks several soldiers and
sailors were hurt The night watch
man OF the Pacific National Bank. ar
Iwenty-eighth street and Madison av-
enue, got so scared that he fred sev-
eral revolver shots. lie didn't bit
anybody. but he was arrested Just the
same. charged with violating the Sui
livan law. He is George Schuckari
OF 4364 Chichester avenue, The Bronx.
Service Men start Rampage.
The soldiers, sailors and marines
apparently had no use for any sort of
maitland, necktie or banner that was
red They started their rampage in
the afternoon outside Madison Square
Garden, where the clothing workers
were having a meeting. Provost
guard and police reserves scattered
them, but not until these uniformed
haters of radicalism had changed the
meeting to simple concert.
They next appeared at the Rand
School. In East Fifteenth street.
swarmed into the Office, smashed type
writer's and hung out the American
flag. They also reduced some furnl.
ture to kindling. Then they invaded
the Peoples House, in East Fifteenth
street also. and finding nobody there
had to content themselves with tear
ing up n lot of Socialist leaflets.
Driven out of Fifteenth street the
raiders scattered, hut reformed again
in Fourth avenue, anl before the
police could get at them they rushed
into the new Office Of the CdH, the
Socialist daily newspaper, at bI2
Some OF the workers there fed BY
way of the fire escape and others
were beaten, but no bones were re-
ported broken. There was also an
invasion of Webster Hall, where the
NeC WOrid, Russian paper, Is
printed. lis office was sadly disar-
ranged. In East Fifteenth street. in
the afternoon, tho soldiers, sailors
and marines said openly that they
would stop the meeting in the evening
in Madison Square Garden. where
they had mistakenly supposed the
Mooney demonstration vas 10 be held
In the afternoon. So in and around
the Garden last night was the big.
gest collection of police and provost
guardsmen ever seen there.
i.3IS Policemen on Duty.
Chief Inspector John DAILY was IN
personal charge Of l,3lS bluecoats of
all ranks. There were 150 members.
Of the Provost Guard outside the Gar
den and fifty were inside, where along
the rails Of the first rising tier CT
seats the police were stationed Ave