The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-16
men
BREAK UP BIG
PH|LA OUTING
WickS Arrested for
Criticising zeal"
tspsoI.I to Th. DaIIy worksrl

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June is.
Neither the thousands of pic
nickers at Schuetzen Park, nor
the steel states mounted police
were disturbed from their activ-
tiles by the heavy rain storm
which broke here Saturday.
The police rode in on the
crowds of merrymakers and ar
rested H. M. Wicks of New York
who was making the principal
speech, which included remarks
not f1attering to the little eau
ton in the White House. The
happy picnickers were dispersed
and Wicks taken to Jail on the
charge of 'disorderly conduct.
The picnic has been scheduled for
rain or shine and was for the benefit
of the DAILY WORKER. The people
had come in droves since morning.
and were in the height of the fun
when the mounted Cossacks arrived.
'fashionably late" and broke up the
SAOWu AROUND the speaker.
Music and Fun Any Way.
The Lithuanian Singing society and
the o. Lyman Union orchestra had
been making the park ring with mu-
sic, and the dancers were stepping II
at great rate just before the police
butted in. Games of all kinds and
contests of various sorts had filed
the children, grown-up or otherwise.
with joy. The hot dogs were yelplng
from the stove ana everybody was
gloriously happy and ready to listen
with enthusiasm to the well-known
speaker.
But the steel trust has its own no
ton OF how to run a state, and didn't
miss the opportunity to send its Cos
sacks to join the picnic and create
disturbance. The steel lords, Gary.
Schwab and their gang don't care how
rowdy the Ku Klux or American Lee
gion Fascists get in Pennsylvania, but
let bunch of honest workingmen and
their families go out for a good time
and they declare it's unbecoming to
the humble state of slaves and send
their armed horse guards to put
sense in the workers heads" by
knocking the men on their heads and
riding as terrifyingly as possible into
the ranks of the women and children.
Steel Trust for FascIsm.
Freedom in Pennsylvania is only al
lowed as the steel trust sees 1T. Free
rein to the hoodlum Klansmen, who
put the jinx on the trials of workers
whose only crime was their class con-
seriousness, like the men in the Far
rell cases, but nothing doing when the
workers themselves want a little fun.
The steel "daddies" of little Calvin
of-the-big-White House guard their
puppets reputation even more care
fully than he does himself. Workers
who don't see what a nice, clean little
boy the oily party has put in the big
chair and intends to keep there,
mustn't call Cal a."strikebreaker" or
anything disparaging. SO H. M.
Wicks from New York was arrested
by the Cossacks, acting for the steel
trust, when he departed from the con-
ventional observation-disclosures
policy allowed by the steel "daddies"
who tried so hard to make congress
agree with Cal in not forcing them to
pay such heavy taxes.
The Philadelphia workers. in spite
of the lack of old Bill PENIS broth
erly love- ideas and practices in the
state named for him, are not discouy.
aged by this latest attack upon them
and consider that their picnic wasn't
at all failure. Rain and mounted
Cossacks and arrests can't spoil their
spirit, they declare proudly. and plan
even greater activities for the DAILY
WORKER and for the movement in
the United States for real class
Farmer-Labor party, which will ulti-
mately tell the steel lords and Cal
where to get off the map.