The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-20
TWO THOUSAND
CHEER SOv|ETS
AT SPY'S MEET
CrowdinD Demonstration
Against AbramOUich

The latest attempt of Raphael
Abramoveh to make an anti-Soviet
speech at the Workmen's Circle Ly-
eeum, was turned into another huge
demonstration for Soviet Russia.
While the counter revolutionary So
eiaIlst was making futile efforts to
make himself heard above the shouts
for Soviet Russia inside the hall, two
thousand workers were cheering
speakers who told Of the first work.
ers' and peasants government.
One hundred plain clothes detec-
tives with sawed off riot guns, uni
formed police, and socialist sluggers,
failed to affect the enthusiasm of the
cheering crowds.
Three Arrests Made.
Joe Search, Ethel Birn and Marie
Polishuk we're arrested by Lieutenant
Byrne and his riot squad, who car
ried riot guns. They were taken to
the police station at the corner of
Lawndale Ave. and 9th ST., where
George Maurer of the Labor Defense
Council succeeded in getting them
out on bail at midnight. The three
Communists were told to appear in
night court last night at eight O'clock
at the city hall. Meanwhile they are
at liberty on $4,000 bail each.
Few Workers Admitted.
1t was evident that the socialists
were determined to allow no one in
side the hall except the Forward
crowd, and those socialists who were
personally known to them. Many
| Jewish people who belonged to no
party, but who wanted to find out
about conditions in Soviet Russia
were turned back to the street, and
joined the other workers who were
Esinging THE International" and
cheering for Soviet Russia.
II couldn't get in because they did
not know me" a Jewish rabbi told
the DAILY WORKER.
In spite of this, however fully one
quarter of the audience, which num-
bered only 300 people, were real
workers who refused to countenance
the lies of Abramovich -
AS soon as Abramovich began to
SANDER the Russian workers cries of
protest filled the hall. Socialists came
running with police and sluggers and
beat up several girls and workers.
There is free speech in America, I"
Abramovich said. That's a lie,"
shouted one workers, and the battle
was on.
Nat Kaplan, member Of the nation
al executive committee of the Young
Workers League was the first to
come bouncing out of the hall, after
giving royal battle to a dozen slug
gers. Anna Bloch came next, and
then Bill Kuperman was thrown out
by the police and socialists, who
welded clubs freely inside the hall.
VIII n Comrade Kuperman ap-
plauded at the name of Soviet Rus
STA, hurley detective pinned his
arms, and two socialists slugged him
in the face. A newspaper camera
man was about to take a picture of
the slugging but Morris Siskind, of
the Forward, refused to permit it, be-
ing afraid to let the workers know
of the atrocities.
L. Yefsky, member of the Work
ers (Communist) Party, a clothing
cutter. was beaten and dubbed by
the socialist gunner, and his wife
was taken into a separate room by
the socialists and slugged. Yefsky
was thrown into the streets, and
could not find his wife for half an
hour. Yefsky declared that it was
the socialist Rosenstein, who beat his
wife.
L. BelIman and his wife had a
similar experience. AS in the other
Abramovich meetings, the socialists
confined their smuggling efforts to the
women, calling the police when they
wanted to slug the men.
Minnie Gibbs, of the Young Work