The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-26
REVOLUTION IN MINIATURE
By E. HEGARE.

Students of revolutionary activity will not be surprised
at what happened in Union Square during the Sacco and
Vanzeti meeting, Thursday July 7th, which was
broken up by the police at the request of the committee
in charge Socialist Party) when thousands of voices be-
gan calling: eve want Gold! We want Gold!" (Ben Cold
Communist) Nor will they be surprised at the comment
upon the situation in the socialist and liberal press and
the Impartial" statement issued by the American Civil
Liberties Bureau.
The writer and heard the entire drama enacted
from a building which looks down Union Square.
distracted from my work by the nsstent camor of
voices calling for Gold. If there anybody in that
crowd of ten thousand people who not calling for
Gold he certainly wasn't heard in that uproar. 1t
the crowd who would not be denied and they took mat
tiers into their hands, and lifted God in spite of his
protests their shoulders. They attempted to thrust
him upon of the platforms. The speakers up to this
point hadn't been very interesting, and there lots
of people in that crowd who were, doubt, yelling
"Gold God! just for the sake of excitement But the
socialists the platform, evidently chagrined at the
popularity of the left wing leader showed their spleen
by kicking Gold in the chest starting to scuffe with the
nsstent crowd and finally calling in the mounted police
Everything happened according to the well-known
MARKHAM formula and everybody concerned shown
up momentary in his true alignment in the class strug
gle:
% Non-partisan mass meeting and one hours strike
called to protest against Sacco and Vanzet execution
(2) All radicals including Communists work to make
demonstration big (3) Committee arrange
including the getting of permit from the police
put in the hands of S. p officials az Armed
with their police permit the socialists decide at the last
moment to exclude the Communists from among the
speakers 5 Out of touch with the rank and file of the
labor movement, the S. P. officials surprised and
angered at the demand of the crowd for speaker who
will speak for them, not at them (6) S. P. committee
reveal how they stand the class struggle by be-
trayng the crowd into the ungente hands of the police
Cd Capitalist press goats ironically disagreement
among radicals. ~ Socialist press Historically de-
demonstration another plot Matched in Mos
COW:
"The disgracefu affair Union Square last week
when the left wing broke up Sacco-Vanzetti meet
ing another exhibition of criminal fanaticsm."
New Leader.
(9) Civil Liberties Union Condemns interference with
workers meetings"
eve committee, not concerned with the
policy adopted in choosing or eliminating certain
speakers representatives of particular groups at
any meeting On this opinions may differ. We
unanimous, however, in condemnng outside interfer
with any meeting and in insisting that the
rights of those in control be recognized 1t will
be a real tragedy if the chief interference with civil
liberty in New York arises from struggles among
the workers themselves. :"
There you have cross-section of action and opinion
in time of revolutionary crisis. The spontaneous
men of the crowd insisting upon leaders who close
to them word and deed the fear and rage of the right
wing socialists who betray their socialism by calling
upon the capitalist gendarmes, and finally the showing
up of the liberal mind essentially hostile to any genu
inc demonstration of the popular will.