The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-25
THOUSANDS HURT
AS PARIS POLICE
.TRAMPLE CROWDS
Swords and Clubs Meet
March on us Embassy


PARIS, Aug, 24.-250 workers were
arrested and more than 1000 injured
as the result Of the merciless attacks
of the French police on the demon
strations of the Paris workers in
their protest against the murder of
Sacco and Vanzetti,
Americans Terrified At Workers.
The police began their assault when
the crowd Of more than $4,000 work
ers who had intended to march to the
United States embassy started
demonstration in front of the Cafe
Tortoni, popular resort of Ameri-
cans who are spending their money
in Paris. Scores of fashicnably
dressed American women and we'll
groomed American men sought re-
fuge by running into the buildings as
the threatening faces of the French
workers began to form in platoons be-
fore the cafe
Police Charge Rear.
Suddenly the police charged into
the street bearing down upon the
workers in the rear. Swords and the
butts Of revolvers We're beaten over
the heads of the demonstrators and
tables were overturned and windows
smashed as the crowds surged across
the terrace. Several shots were fired
but no one was wounded.
After the police outrage at the cafe
Tortoni the workers reformed and be-
gan to gather from all parts of Paris.
The police who had orders from
Chiappe, the project, that they were
to stop at nothing in preventing pro-
tests for Sacco and Vanzetti, met re-
sistance at every cross-street as the
thousands strove to form their col
umns and APPROACH the American en-
bassy.
Trees Torn Up in Police Battle.
The worst clashes occurred at the
Porte st. Martin, where the police
trampled demonstration as it was
forming, and on the Boulevard
Strassbourg and the Boulevard Sebas-
topol and the Arcade Tromphe. Here
the police made their most desperate
attacks, riding into the masses who
were filling the boulevards in thou
sands, and beating them with clubs
and their swords. Many windows were
demolished and automobiles wrecked
In the battle. Even young tress along
the streets were broken by the force
of the charging police and the resist,
ance Of the demonstrators. Hundreds
Of workers We're injured here and As
police were sent to the hospital
U. s. Embassy Guarded For 6 Blocks.
All approaches to the American
embassy, the objective of the demon
stration, were massed deep with po-
lice for six blocks on all sides. $500
police and the entire mounted Garde
Republicaine surrounded the building.
And all pedestrians and Automobiles
stopped, searched and turned away.
Guards were also placed along the
routes which Americans in Paris are
in the habit of travelling, along the
winding, uphill roads to Montmartre,
where thieves, prostitutes and wealthy
American men and women mix in the
night-life of Paris. Police were sta
toned at all American resorts.
Papers in the French capital con-
tinue to lament the murder of Sacco,
and Vanzetti. 'Humanite is taking
measures to make sure that the mern-
bers of the American Legion when
they visit Paris may know that the
murder Of the two workers in Massa-
chusetts was a crime against French
as well as against the American
working class. Sacco and Vanzetti
are everywhere spoken of as martyrs
in the Paris newspapers.