Evening star., 1928-11-10
80 Youths and Girls Carry
Banners Demanding Ma
rines Quit Nicaragua.
CALL SELVES MEMBERS
OF LABOR DEFENSE BODY
Hesse to Require Them to Give
Real Estate Bonds and
Stand Trial.


Labor Defense League of America,
shortly after noon today paraded once
around the State, Army and Navy
Building and then we're taken in hand
by Detectives H. E. Varney and H. E.
Ogle of police headquarters and pa
raded to the District Building.
The members of the parade bore ban
ners and placards demanding the With
drawal of Marines from Nicaragua and
the release of John Porter, vice presi-
dent of the New Bedford, Mass, Textile
Unoin, from Fort Leavenworth Prison,
where he is serving sentence for de-
sertion from the Army.
Eight girls, most of them in their
teens, were in the file which wound
around tta building. The march was
orderly and there were no outcries.
Asked to Show Permit.
The file was just about to take the
Pennsylvania avenue entrance into the
building with a petition for Secretary
of War Davis, demanding the release of
Porter, when headquarters detectives
arrived on the scene and asked the
leaders for their permit to parade.
When no permit was produced, De-
tective Brodie shouted to the whole
file: Come on, we'll have a parade
right down to headquarters" With
Detective Ogle, he lined up all of the
paraders and they were marched down
to the District Building despite the
protest that they had petition to
present to Secretary of War Dwight F
Davis.
= John S. Hornbeck, attorney, Wood
ward Building, accompanied the pa
raiders. He said he was their attorney
and would arrange bail for them II
charges were placed against them.
Banners Are Taken.
When the paraders were taken intt
custody, their banners were taken from
them by the detectives.
| On their march around the State, Wal
and Navy Building the leaders of the
parade distributed to newspaper men a
| copy of the demand which was to have
| been presented Secretary Davis and a
/
| Defense, so East Eleventh street, New
York City, demanding the release of
Porter.
The banners read: I'VE Demand the
Immediate Withdrawal of the Marines
From Nicaragua" Free John Porter
He Refused to Become the Tool of
Capitalism and Militarism," Down
With Preparations for New Imperialist
War. Our Fight Is for John Porter,
Fight Against Capitalism and Mill
tariSm"
The paraders said they were from
Northern industrial centerS, mostly
from New York City.
Arrested in Picketing.
The International Labor Defense
resolutions states that Porter was ar
rested on the picket line of the New
Bedford textile workers strike, at first
charged with singing on the picket
line. This, according to the reSolu-
ton, followed four other arrests of Por-
ter for strike activity. The resolution
states that Porter enlisted in the Army
when he was 16 years of age and de-
serted after two years and two months
of service, and that the. charge was
not brought against him until he be-
came an active leader of the strike.
Last April a Nicaraguan demonStra-
ton at the White House resulted in the
arrest of ~ men and women who came
here under the auspices of the ALI
America ti-Imperialist League one
of the organizations named in the petit
ton to Secretary Davis. Five forfeited
SIS collateral and 81, pleading guilty,
paid S. the maximum at that time al
lowed. Since then. the flning limit has
been raised to $100.
The Spring demonstrators come from
several Eastern industrial centerS. in
cluding New York, Philadelphia. New
ark and Baltimore. Several of them
said at that time they had only been
invited to make pleasure trip here
and knew nothing of the reason for
the Journey until they arrived.
In the April cases those arrested were
allowed to post $25 collateral for their
freedom, but shortly after the demon
Strators were brought to police head
quarters today Maj. Edwin B. Hesse,
superintendent of police. announced
thai he had issued orders that all be
held for trial and that real estate
bond be required for the release of
every one. This action, he said, he
took after conference with Miss Pearl
Mccall, assistant District attorney.
Leaders of Parade.
Leaders in the parade were: Carl
Reeve, %. New York City. who gives
his occupation as an editor: Paul
Crouch, 25, New York City. clerk:
Karl Jones, 35, colored. New York City,
who says he Is an organizer; Clarence
Miller. %, Philadelphia, plumber. and
BENJAMIN Thomas 40 of PHILADELPHIA
machinist.
They constituted the committee of
members of the International Labor
Defense League, who led the parade
and passed out the information to