The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-26
OTHER POLICE
THUGS BAD AS
OFFICER 34O1
All Girls AssaiIants
Should Be Fired

Mayor William E. Dever's promise
to the COMMITTEE of 15," to see that
Officer 8401 was put off the force,
does not satisfy members Of the
strike committee.
They point out that if Officer
3401's assault on Olga Levin is an
offense worthy of dismissal that the
still more violent assault on Sophie
Altschuler in front of 237 S. Market
street by Officer 0'Rorke (3181),
March Ia, should lead to similar ac-
ton.
Dever's Excuse Doesn't Go.
Mayor Dever's excuse to the sub
committee, consisting of Anton Jo-
hansen, John Fitzpatrick and Victor
Olander, which presented the gar
ment workers union written report,
was that the other assaults listed
there occurred before their first visit
to him and before he had promised to
take up the matter of police brutal
ity-whereas the assault on Miss
Levin took place later.
Strikers are indignant at this
crude attempt to side-step the issue.
Regardless Of when the assaults by
uniformed police occurred the mayor
must do what he can to rectify them
now. But the facts are that the
mayor is grossly incorrect as to time.
Beaten Seven Days After Promise.
Johannsen, Olander and Fitzpat-
rick made their first visit of COM
1aloTY4% ~ tho MowoI
Friday morning. Sophie Altschuler
was not beaten up until the follow
ing Friday, March IL, seven days
after the mayor promised to make his
police behave.
The cruelty Of the crime was in
tensiied at the S. Clark st. station,
according to the text of the docu-
ment which the committee presented
the mayor and a copy of which is in
possession Of the DAILY WORKER.
In the police station the matron re-
fused to get a doctor for the injured
girl tho she had been unconscious for
time after the attack. This, in
spite of the fact that there is a doc
or on the fourth floor of this building.
She was kept in the police station
for several hours, without medical
attendance, before she was finally
booked at six o'clock. Five hours
after she was assaulted DR.. Mailman.
private physician, examined her at
the hotel and found her wrists still
"badly swollen"
Made Mouth Bleed.
On the same day Fannie Yannes.
1929 Iowa street, was struck SO vio-
lently in the mouth by Officer Will
liam Hankin in front of 228 Market
street that her teeth were loosened
and her mouth bled.
The beating OF Ethel Sphinx by off,
GERS 5159 and 1909 on March 18 and
the arrest of DAILY WORKER re-
porter who got the policemen's num-
Der is further cited by the report
which the committee handed the
mayor and which was prepared by the
garment workers union. The date
again refutes the mayors statement
that these other assaults occurred
before the first visit of the commit
tee.
The same day officers Collins and
H~~-AA S~ASAt WIN dco4olcu Ill The arrest
of Sophie Altschuler, several DAYS
earlier, arrested Gussie Cohen, 14i3
N. Larkin street and amused them
selves by taking her hands and hit
ting her in the face with them.
Union Has the Proof.
All these cases are authenticated
by numerous witnesses. Of the lat
ter the garment workers union
makes the statement, which is ap-
proved by vice-president Meyer PERL
stein, that:
"Freda Reicher, striker in.
whose intelligence and honesty we
have the utmost faith, saw this at
tack and is willing to appear before
your committee and tell it."
Other instances are given and the
union is ready to furnish the COM
mittee. Of 10 that they might present
them daily to the mayor.