The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-23
POLICE FIGHT IN
VAIN TO PREVENT
CITY HALL MARCH
Cossacks Swing Clubs
and Blackjacks

NASN NNlAuHSlIdLOLps OF pduU Oh ten
thousand, broke thru the police net
that had been thrown around City
Hall Plaza, and expressed their senti-
ments before the office of the mayor
in City Hall Park
All along the line of march, from
14th St. and End Ave to Mulberry
and Canal SITS the police modified
from point to point. attempting to
break up the singing, cheering,
marching throngs. Clubs and black
Jacks were swung INCREASINGLY, but to
no avail. The workers were deter
mined to assemble at City Hall, and
make known to the city government
the direction Of their sympathies.
Gordon of Police
Police officials, alarmed when they
could not control the situation, placed
a Gordon of police around City Hall
within a radius of ten blocks. Only
one person at time was permitted
thru the police dragnet.
Hundreds Of workers got through
the police lines, defiantly booing, ut
terly oblivious to the swinging clubs
and blackjacks. Ten high-powered
Packard cars, packed with detectives,
raced down Centre ST. with sirens
screaming their haste, and when five
hundred demonstrators attained their
objective, assembling on the steps of
City Hall, the detectives jumped from
the cars and descended on the mob.
COssacks Beat Demonstrators.
For fully half an hour, pandemon-
ium reigned as squads of detectives
ran from one point in the park to
another, chasing before them scores
of brutally beaten demonstrators. The
net was frightened, and finally, the
five hundred demonstrators were
chased away, with broken heads,
fractured jaws, bleeding noses, black
eyes, and clothing torn and damaged.
New York's police had again re-
earned the name of "Cossacks. -
Even though the police anticipated
the event, the demonstration was sue
cessful. Twice before, workers en-
ragged over the injustices dealt them
and their class by capitalist judges,
had paraded thru the streets of lower
Manhattan, and once before they had
attained City Hall
Women and Children Beaten.
Scores of men, women and children
were brutally beaten by members of
the industrial squad and a regiment
Of police at Bayard and Mulberry St.
skirmish last night.
WELDING their clubs and black
jacks, the police and detectives hit
the workers without mercy. Those
workers that started to run for safe
ty at the approach of the police were
followed by the cossacks who threw
many workers down and then con-
tinued to beat them.
Not in many years have the police
showed such viciousness. Their or
ders were to MAIN, not arrest. John
J. Broderick, head of the industrial
squad, was the most aggressive. He
welded his blackjack, heavy pipe
covered with tape, with fiendish
smile. When the demonstrators were
routed Broderick appeared to be
fatlgued from his brutal performance
10000 In Parade
The program was the aftermath of
several unsuccessful attempts by the
police to break up the parade of more
than 10000 workers. When the Union
Square meeting ended at 6:20 D. m.
thousands of workers surged towards
the Jewish Daily Freiheit where they
sang the international. The crowd
was so dense that they had to move
at a snail's pace. Police then went
among the workers and confiscated
all the banners that the workers were
carrying. Mounted police then went
on the sidewalks and drove the work
ers towards 18th ST.
Cheer Workers Party Office.
When the marching workers passed
the headquarters of the Workers
(Communist) Party, 10s East 14th
St. they stopped to cheer. Suddenly
members of the industrial squad who
had been hiding in nearby stores
swooped out on the street and started
to hit right and left. For about three
seconds the streets were clear of DEM
onstrators. But the thousands Of
workers who we're still coming from
Union Square quickly filled up the
space Of the dispersed workers.
At this period the industrial squad
was given orders to go to the Jewish
Daily Forward, ITS East Broadway.
Rumors had been circulated that that
was the destination of the demonstra-
tors.
Boo Socialists.
Continuing down 14th st. the work
ers booed the office of the sacco-
Nanzetti Liberation Committee, 23l
East 14th ST., a socialist organization
that had gone on record against yes
terday's strike.
The workers turned into Second
Ave. and started to march south.
They sang the international, cheered
for Sacco and Vanzetti, and hooed
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