The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-29
WORKERS PARTY
MAINTAINS FREE
SPEECH right
Hold Meeting in Spite
of Police Opposition

SuSCSSStuby lOuSul OUT d Tree
s p h fight Friday night
against seven policemen, nunner-
Gus plain clothes dicks, and two
or three fIivver squads, who at
tempted to break up the meet
ing at the corner of Wilton ST.
and Belmont Ave.
Five speakers representing
the Proletarian Party had been
arrested on the same corner on
the previous evening, and. the
Workers Party speakers formed
a United Front free speech fight
with the Proletarian Party
speakers Friday night.
Charge Police Were Rough.
The Workers Party speakers allow
ed the Proletariat Party SPEAKERS the
use of the Workers Party platform,
and gave over the corner to their
speakers during the first part of the
evening.
The Proletarian speakers told Of the
arrest the evening before, and the
rough treatment received at the han'l
of the police and of Judge Newcomer
The Workers Party later took over the
platform.
Comrade D. E. Early, the first Work
ers Party speaker, explained to the
large audience of workers, many of
whom had witnessed the arrests the
previous evening, the principles of the
united front, and declared the Work
ers Party was glad to form such
united front with the ProIetarian Par
ty in a free speech fight.
Early denounced the Dawes plan
and explained the principles of inter-
national working class solidarity, led
by the Third (Communist) Interna-
tional, as opposed to international
capitalism as exemplified in the
Dawes plan. During Comrade Early's
talk the police were active riding back
and forth along Wilton street in their
Ford, and several plain clothes thugs
were in the crowd, but the meeting
was not stopped
Tell of Russia's Struggles.
The history of the struggles of the
workers and farmers government of
Soviet Russia was briefly related by
Karl Reeve, who showed how the unit
ed forces of world capitalism had fail
ed to crush the workers in that coun
try. Reeve urged the undivided sup
port of the workers politically under
the banner of the Communists and on
the industrial field in militant trade
union activity, to form a workers and
farmers government in the United
States along the lines of the govern
ment of Soviet Russia.
Reeve denounced the Ku Klux Khan
as one means used by the employers
in this country as an effort to disrupt
the workers, and told how the Khan in
Southern Illinois is using descriptive
methods in the miners union. Reeve
told of the class struggle between the
large employers, such as the Western
Electric company, the U. S. Steel cor
poration and the electric trust on the
ono hand and steel trust slaves on the
other.
When Comrade Early again took the
platform to sell the literature and
closed the meeting, he was interrupted
by uniformed policeman, who threat
ened to call the patrol if literature
were sold.
We'll, Wen give it away, then"
Comrade Early shouted, "and wen
take up a collection to pay for it,"
Says He'll Call Wagon.
"I'll call the wagon if you do" the
cop answered.
well, go ahead and call the wagon"
Early replied. 1--WE have a right to
free speech, and the selling of litera-
ture and the taking up of a collection
go along with street meetings." When
Comrade Early declared he would con-
time to talk and assert his constitu-
tional rights of free speech, the crowd
loudly applauded.
More than 81 were taken up in the
collection and all the literature, in
GLIDING the DAILY WORKER, the
Young Worker, and pamphlets by Fos-
ter and Jay Lovestone, were distribut-
ed. Another meeting will be held on
the same corner by the Workers Par
ty Tuesday night.
Hear bob" Minor.
A crowd Of several hundred Negroes
stood in the drizzling rain and listen
ed to a speech by Robert Minor at a
street meeting on the corner OF Both
and State Saturday night.
Future street meetings are announc.
ed as follows:
Monday Western Electric noon
speakers Ella Reeve Bloor
and others.
Monday night--Madison and Wood
SITS. Mid-City Branch. Speakers Ella
Reeve Bloor and Karl Reeve.
Tuesday night-Wilton and Bel !
mont. Speakers d. Il. Early and others.
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