The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-17
OFFICER 1881
BEAT SOPHIE
ALTSCHULER
Union Picket Plans to Tell
Court Of Attack TO-DAY

If the doctor, under whose
care Sophie AltschuIer now is,
will permit her to leave her
bed, she will go to the S. Clark
Street police court this morn
ing to ask Judge Samuel Trude
to issue a warrant charging as
sault against Police OficSr No.
1881.
Friday night Sophie was
beaten so severely by this po-
liceman that she has been
under the constant care of a
doctor ever since.
Active on Picket Line.
Sophie Altschuler has been one Of
the most active girls on the picket
line In the strike of the International
Ladies Garment Workers Union.
Every day and at all hours she has
been on the picket line trying to
persuade the girls who are working
IN the dress shops to quit and come
out on strike with the union girls.
Attic she has been arrested often she
has not been charged with assault
which rroyes that she has done her
plcketing in a peaceful manner.
Friday evening she and another
girl were walking up and down S.
Market St., when her old boss, a Mr..
Relnhart, a dress manufacturer.
pointed her out to either Officer Col
Inns or Officer Schroeder of the States
Attorneys office and told him that
Sophie was one of the most active
plckets. She was arrested and taken
into the hallway of the building at
2S7 S. Market St., where she was
placed in charge Of Officer No. 1881.
Threatens to Kill Girl.
Officer No. 1881 had seen Sophie
arrested before and knew her as an
active union girl. When he saw her
brought into the hall Friday night he
began to swear and curse at her,
He said that he would kill her. He
repeatedly yelled at her, 81 don't
want you to live. l will kill YOU. .
He began twisting her arms and
fingers. Sophie tried to defend her
self. This Infatuated him the more.
He then took her head in the crook
of his arm and squeezed it.
He threw her to the floor and
Sophie tainted. She revived shortly
after and the policeman began beat
ing her again. He took her to the
rear of the hall and threatened to
throw her down the stairs. A couple
of plain clothes officers were at
tracted to the hallway by her
screams and they called to the police
man to stop beating Sophie.
Would Throw Her Down Stairs.
The policeman yelled and shouted
and told them to mind their own
business. They did not try to sepa-
rate Sophie and the policeman. The
fiendish brute opened the door to the
cellar and tried to throw her down the
stairs. She took hold of the door
and held with a strength born OF
desperation. Then she tainted anc
the next thing she knew she was be-
ing put into a patrol wagon along
with Carrie Siever.
Carrie Siever says that the police,
man who had arrested her anc
Sophie, 1t must have been either Col
Inns or Schroeder, told the officer il
charge of the patrol to tell the matror
at the police station not to bool
Sophie and Carrie till after 81,
o'clock.
Carrie and Sophie were taken Il
the S. Clark St., police station anC
put in cell in the rear of the wo
mems quarters. Other strikers wer,
brought in but they were not per
mitted to know that either Sophie o.
Carrie were arrested.
Mstron Is No Different.
The other strikers were bailed on
and still Sophie and Carrie were he'll,
without being booked. Carrie Gale,
the attention of the matron I,
Sophie's condition. The matron said
after looking at Sophie thru the bar
Of the cell, "Oh, she's all right. TIL
skin has not been broken"
The matron refused to call a doc
tor in spite Of the fact that there wa
a city physician on the next floor o
the. building.
Sophie lay on the hard bench Of tn
cell from 4:30 P. M. till after 60
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