The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-10-15
Paris Protests Death of Sacco and Vanzetti

Boycott Yankee Capitalism Practical pnd
effective boycott measures will be Immediately IN
dertaken.
3--Demonstrate Tonight at 8 o'clock: Without
waiting for anything further, at 8 o'clock night
let the immense crowd of workers from the old
revolutionary faubourgs and from the red suburbs,
descend the boulevards and there give express
sion to their unanimous condemnation.
They will maintain their GOODNESS in the face of
all provocations whatsoever and will give this de-
monstration, which will usher in future justice that
great and calm quality that characterizes the inter
national working class.
That night, at o'clock the workers were to march
on the boulevards In every red suburb, deep in
mourning but seethng with anger, the slogan rar
like lighted fuse
meeting of the cabinet was hurriedly called.
There conference at the police prefecture of
police. The perfect of police, Chappe forbade the
demonstration.
But try to prevent the masses of workers from
shouting their indignation!
From o'clock on a seething crowd covered the
sidewalks and the boulevards from the Rue Mont
martre to the Porte Saint Martin On the streets
there were frequent tie-ups caused both by the
movement of the protesting workers and the lines
which the police kept increasing
Mounted guards, foot-poice and mere cops man
euvered in little punches, their object was to see
that the workers "kept moving and to dam back
the comrades in the streets crossing the boulevards
Police captains were arousing their followers
Come on! Start that traffic there! Break all
that up" ore of them shouted.
police whistle shrieked and, obedently the cops
began their nlan-hunt.
Trouble was on from o'clock At the corner Of
the Rue Montartre the police started the first set
to, but part of comrades took refuge in the
cafe-bar which makes one side of the boulevard
there while several hundreds of others escaped along
the Rue Montmartre When they arrived in front of
H'Humanite they shouted:
Long live Sacco! Long live Vanzetti! Down with
Fuer"
Suddenly, still en- the same side of the boulevard
a thick column of demonstrators spread into the
Faubourg Montmartre, coming from the Rue Cadet.
The guardes republicans hurled themselves on them
with an indescribabe brutality. The police brand
ished their clubs. The wounded fell The terrace
Of the cafe was invaded
charge in the Place de la Republique another
III the Rue de Lanc1y, another on the Boulevard Sc
bastopol, another the Rue Montmartre, another
at the Gymnase, another at the Care de LEST!
Women, children, men, sent rolling, beaten
trampled on, with unspeakable savagery. Arrests
then beatings, then firing, and blood flows.
The cafes close. The terraces the bars shut down.
the boulevards empty.
The police attack in the midst of tangle Of cars
taxis, busses The skeletons of barrcades rise The
crowd OF workers reacts and counterattacks. Driven
back into the adjacent streets, it forms again.
shouts its anger, boots American capitalism
And suddenly the inspiration of the masses breaks
forth spontaneously: "To Montmartre! To Mont
martre! The capital of the millionaire pleasure
hunters!"