The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-18
.ANTI-RED POLICE
RAID FLAYED BY
WORKERS PARTY
Three Members Held in
$4,000 Bonds
Especial to The Daily worker.)

NEW YORK, March 16. - Three
members Of the Workers (communIst)
Party are held here In bond Of $4,000
each under the old Sullivan law
against non-aIlens carrying arms.
The arrests were made by Captain
Gegan Of the notorious bomb squad
and the arms" found on the Workers
Party members were old rifles rented
from the Stanley Costume company
for participation in the Paris Com.
mune pageant which took place in
Madison Square Garden. yesterday.
That police official could take
such liberties with the law against =
working class organization is added
proof that no legal forms are observed
by the capitalist government. when
dealing with the working class.
The following statement was issued
by the Workers Party of New York
IN connection with the arrests:
Party Isues Statement.
The Workers Communist Partr
repudiates as silly frame-up and .
trayesty of justice the much advsr-
Used exploit of Captain Gegan in the
seixure Of few ancient muskets of
the model Of 1875 and the detention of
innocent participants in a theatrical
performance under the absurd hail
of $4,000 each.
rms heroic undertaking received
wide publicity in the press as the
apprehension of Communists engaged
IN gun drill presumably in prepara.
tion for the overthrow of the Tinted
States government.
The whole affair would he a,
amusing revelation Of the antics OF
Captain Gegan and his merry men
ana OF the susceptibility Of the capital
isl press for red scares regardless Of
iacts' were it not for the serious con-
sequences involved for the victims.
Man Of vlsIon7
4 Captain Gegan is living up to his
reputation of 1919 when he showed
himself an adept at 'seeng things
about the reds which he always
failed to substantiate in court. Gegan
after long period of quiescence IS
again in eruption.
ON Friday night this mighty de-
FENDER of American capitalism swoop.
ed down without a warrant upon the
headquarters Of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party. los E. 18th street and
the Ukrainian Hall. II E. 3rd street.
and confiscated few useless old mus
kets that were hired together with
other theatrical paraphernalia from
the Stanley Costume company, 3O6 w.
END street, for use in a pageant to
be given tomorrow Sunday in Ma
olson Square Garden in commemora.
ton of the anniversary Of the Paris
Commune. Three of the participants
in this pageant who happened to be
standing near were arrested and held
by Magistrate We'll under the enorm-
GUS bail Of $4,000 each.
In Role Of Clown.
These recent exploits of Captain
Gegan. once the facts are known. puts
Gegan and his whole crew including
the reactionary interests he is serving.
AZ lausnaDle ana ridiculous predica-
ment, an assault on inoffensive work
ers participating in a theatrical re-
hearsal, the seizuse of few ancient
muskets fitted to function only as mu-
scum antiquities. most OF them dunn
mics with wooden barrels.
IF this is the policy of the bomb
squad, why not Immediately Jail and
put under bail of $4,000 each every
supernumery in a theatrical perform
ance on Broadway who shoulders a
musket? Nevertheless. the serious
guardians of capitalist law here have
incarcerated three workers for that
crime.
Permission Obtained.
Captain Gegan and the capitalist
interests whom he is serving know the
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