The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-06

whlch,.it IS alleged, he blew in
in one wild night at the night
clubs.
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Not only were his men outrageously
brutal in handling the people, but
there was not the slightest pretext
for what took place. No disorder had
occurred. Neither the people in
charge of the meeting nor the audi
ence showed the slightest evidence of
melting to riot or in any way doing
more than engage in the exercise of
their constitutional right of free
speech"
Terrorize Mourners.
Consistently following this policy
of brutality all during the period of
protests against the murders in Bos-
ton, the police did not show the slight
est feeling Of humanity, even in the
presence Of death. When the funeral
went through the city, its way near
the state house was blocked off by
torn-up streets and city trucks turned
sideways and stalled. Mounted police
men rode repeatedly into the thou
sands who marched behind the biers,
swinging their clubs and injuring
many.
In New York, meetings which took
place in Union Square were treated
in the same manner, hundreds Of
policemen hedging about the speak
ers and audience while mounted
troops waited few PAGES away for
the order to charge-and the order
was frequently given. At one time,
young woman who had not partici-
pated in the meeting but who was
passing across Union Square Square
was knocked unconsciously by an ex-
cited policeman. She was picked up
by employees of bank on the square
and taken into the offices where they
gave her first aid.
+. Charge Into Crowd.
On August 29, the police used
horses, motorcycles and fire apparatus
to charge into a crowd of 10000 or
more persons who, after holding
memorial service, attempted to parade
behind the automobile which carried
Mrs. Rose Sacco, widow of Nicola
Sacco. Many persons were injured.
On August 8, police attacked stu
dents of the New York City Col
lege who were holding a protest meet
ing on the campus. The students were
roughly handled and placards which
they carried We're torn from their
hands,.
Police Thuggery in Chicago.
In Chicago, permits for meetings
were refused and use of private halls
withheld by the same method prac-
ticed by the Boston police-intimida-
ton of the owners. For passing out
handbills urging strike to save Sacco
and Vanzetti, seventy persons were
arrested by the police shortly before
the execution. Included among them
was Aurora D'Angelo, young girl,
whose clothes were partly torn from
her by the police. When she was re-
leased on bail and continued her agi-
tation, she was arrested a second and
q third time and finally confined in |
the psychopathic ward of a hospital |
as in the case of Powers Hapgood |
Also, as in the case of Powers Hap
good, the doctors were forced to re-
port her sane and above the average
in intelligence. She is now awaiting
trial for melting TO riot and is out
under bonds totaling S2,400.
In Washington, D. c., two outstand-
ing instances reveal the trend of the
official mind ON free speech and civil
liberty. Representative Albert John
son, Chairman of the House Commit
zee on immigration, issued warning !
hat aliens who participated in Sacco-
vanzetti protests would be arrested
md deported. Mrs. Lenora RI. Jones,
! Quaker, SO years old, was indefi-
litely suspended from her position as
! tourist guide in the Capitol Build
ng, because she remarked that she
would be willing to die herself to
save the lives of Sacco aid Vanzetti
and the honor of her coun Try. She is
he sole support of crippled hus-
)and
In Los Angeles, the police INDUCED
n wholesale arrests of radicals and
liberals and protest meetings were
broken up by officers armed with
lilies, machine guns and tear bombs.
Attack Chcswick Miners.
At Cheswick, Pennsylvania, scores
If striking miners and their wives
and children were injured and one
rooper was killed when state police
stacked "a Sacco-Vanzetti protest
Meeting. The troopers charged the
nine people time after time, riding