The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-02
GENERAL STRIKES
 PLANNED BY REDS AT N. Y. MEETING
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! LAlN1e ED ID AGIDO
 AT N. Y. MEETING
 (continued from Page One) afternoon and organized a parade with roore than 800 men in line. In the course of their march they spied what they termed @bolshevist' posters pasted on the fl ont of the building occupied by the New York Call, a socialist Iaoor newspaper.
 Responding to the orders of their lead CTS, the service men charged the build- ing. They destroyed a large quantity of socialist literature, stopping long enou54 to eject from doors and windows dozen employees of the paper, who were forced to run the gauntlet between two lines or men in uniform who rained blows on them as they fled Four women were carried out of the building fainting.
 PARADE RESUMED
 The parade then was resumed one or the first places on the itinerary was Mad- ison Square Garden, where some one. re- ported a "bolshevist gathering" Then they ma arched to the Soldiers and Sailors Protective association on East Twenty third street, looking for bolshevist titer- ature. Next the Rand School of Social Sciences was called upon and later the office of Now Mir, official organ of the FuSSldn pClSHeNlkl HeIe
 At Madison Square Garden, where May Day was being celebrated by 1o,:9o workers of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. the parading sol diers and sailors were met at the doors by the police, who checked them there
 The bugle call Ito arms" brought more soldiers and sailors hurrying to the al eady besieged doors of the garden ana the notes heard inside the big aNsna l.r eli TTr, tn that time g,eetings had been proposed to the great and free people of Russia" and to re- deemed Germany" together with demands for restoration of free speech, free press and free assembly, repudlation ana repeal of all measures of oppression and repression, release of industrial and pc- litical prisoners, immediate termination of deportation of aliens ana Witndra"a' of American troops from Russia
 Shouts from the uniformed men at the doors to make the bolshevik sing The Star Spangled Banner" emphasized. @Ae silence in the garden. A hurried con- ference by those in charge of the meet ing brought the decision to call off the speech making. , The self-constituted crusaders arrived at the Rand School during 8 pandemcn- | jun of cheering over statements from the rlstform that America is no better ehan l Russia" and 'there is no freedom here The soldiers and sailors dem&~.!ed 1 trat the American flag be run up to the ] top of the school flag pole. A flag was ! hastily brought out of the cellar ana raised.
 l ONE MAN KILLED 1 By Associated .Pren
 ] Cleveland, O., May l.-An unidentified man was killed by detective's bullet 1 il policemen were shot or badly beater and about 100 persons wounded, many SC i riously, in general rioting, which brough | dramatic finale this afternoon to
 socialist May Day demonstration here.
 Fresh rioting broke out here tonigh l during May Day celebrations, adding eight more to todays list of wounded Police Lieutenant Nelson G. Meeker wa l shot in the shoulder and patrolman SC
 verely cut when they charged a crowt
 of alleged radicals at East Eighty-ninti street and Buckeye road. Other officer | then dispersed the mob.
 1 About 30 persons, seriously injured l are in hospitals tonight, while scores l of others. including women, wer' trampled by rioters and clubbed by DO lice.
 Socialist headquarters was totall! 1 wrecked by angry civilians bent ol
 putting an end to the demonstration. The rioting was general in Public ] square, East Ninth street, Huron road Prospect avenue, Superior avenue. Boil yer avenue and other thorougnfares Socialists and sympathizers in Eas
 Ninth street and at Public square wer'
 ridden down by mounted policemen an'
 by soldiers in army tanks and trucks
 The one fatality occurred at Centra
 and Woodland avenues, when mol
 said to have been composed of social ists or sympathizers rushed Detectiv Woodring and other officers. Wood l ring, declaring he drew his revolver t save his own life. fired into the al
 legged leader of the mob, the bulle passing through the mans neck, kill Ing him instantly. First reports sai the dead man was an onlooker. SIXTY ARRESTED
 Sixty of the rioters were arrested. !, score were found to have weapons O them, police say.
 A mob of several hundred of tn rioters threatened police headquarter
 when c. E. Ruthenberg, socialist leade , and former socialist candidate fo mayor. was arrested and'for more tha ) an hour the entire downtown sectio of the city was a seethine mass of SC
 cialists police. civilians and soldier | the latter riding down the rioters ) army trucks and tanks.
 1 Dozens of shots were fired in Pub lie square, where more than 10000 sc cialists and sympathizers assembled fc Il May Day rally and to protest again. | the conviction of Eugene V. Debs an | Thomas J. Mooney.
 Il The trouble started in Superior avs II nue, near East Ninth street when tn
 head of one of the five socialist pa Il rades, scheduled to meet in a ma! II meeting at Public square. was stoppe Il and Liberty Loan workers and an arm Il lieutenant tore a red flag from a ma Il at the head of the marchers, practical Il every one of whom were carrying re | flags.
 Il Tn less than 10 minutes riots had d, | veloped at several other points al | mounted and foot policemen we, | quickly switched from one location II another to quell the fighting. II SCORE ARRESTED II Chicago. May LA score of arres II were made in the May Day demonstr Il tions of radicals in Chicago today all-day rain and police activity had t II effect of auenching any revolutiona H fires that may have been struggling f II expression. The days development II were as follows:
 U Mounted policemen charged and di