The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-09
Is FALL RIVER
PICKETS JAILED
IN new TERROR
Pregnant Woman Is
Assaulted by Police

FALL RIVER, Mass, Aug. g.
Breaking the back of the strike"
is chief of police Feeney of Fall
Rivers Characterization of police
brutality in throttling Mrs. Joseph
Pacheco, pregnant striker, while
they held her against an iron
viaduct and crushed her stomach
walls in with their knees. She was
rushed to the Truesdale Hospital in
critical condition.
The woman's offense was that she
tried to remain with her husband,
a picket arrested with 25 others, in
cluding Bill Seroka, James P. Reid,
Pete Hagelnis and Sam Wiseman,
leaders of the Fall River Textile
Mills Committee, in an attempt to
pass thru the cordons which the
police today threw around the fac
tories.
Boasts of Terror.
For quarter of a mile around the
mills squadrons of police swept the
streets bare of pedestrians while
thousands of workers thronged the
thoroughfares just out of arms
reach of the police outposts.
Chief of police Feeney is openly
boasting in the local press of the
feats of brutality performed by his
squadrons. Police violence "will
break the back of the strike" he is
quoted as saying.
simultaneously with the renewed
police terrorism, Commissioner Wood
of the department of justice arrived
in Fall River today to begin de-
termined campaign to drive the Tex
tile Mills Committee out of the
city.
Terrible Weisbord!
Wood declared that "Weisbord is
sinister menace to all hardwork-
ing, respectable, Industrious textile
workers of this and any other city"
In substantiation he pointed out
Weisbord's record in the Passaic
strike where Wood himself was
active in another capacity.
He further warned the good peo-
pie Of this city mot to be blinded
by the fireworks of this fiend and
the promises that he will lead them
into utopias impossible of achieve
ment. 1e kegged the workers to
l'esna;n in their reactionary unions,
for which he expressed the great
est respect. These, he declared,
would lead them to an adjustment
pf their difficulties sooner than will
be effected under the banner of
radicalism."
Following this announcement,
200 workers of the American Print
Ing Company marched half mile to
the Algonquin Mill on Bay Street
where they sang and cheered
beneath the windows. The workers
looked out and returned the cheers.
Intense excitement is reported to
reign in the mill.
FALL RIVER, Mass, Aug. g.
Growing picket lines this morning,
the defiant reply Of the 1000 Fall
River textile strikers to brutal po-
lice attacks on Monday and Tues
day, heroically faced fresh wave
of charging police despite 81 new
arrests.
This brings the total arrested,
since the workers walked out of
the factories Monday in an anti
wage cut struggle, up to 68.
Stoically ignoring commands to
disperse, the hundreds of men and
women on picket lines continued to
patrol the American Printing Com
pany plant till police began their
lhaily wholesale arrests of the strik-
ers at the heads of the lines. Fur
cher arrests were also made Mt the
gates of the Lincoln Manufacturing
Company, also declared on strike
by the Textile Mill Committees.
Mid-afternoon Of the second day
Of the strike found twenty strikers
facing trial for "parading without
permit" and peace disturbance"
But the picket lines organized for
the evening found the same intoler-
able police tyranny waiting them.
Over twenty were thrown into cells
yesterday.
Not content with the terror ma
chine the mill barons can mobilize
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