The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-03

1ue WoIheIS HeIQ d large
and important portion of the
city, and the police had with
drawn to recover from their
losses.
This is the second night of fight
ing. After the blood bath the po-
lice visited upon the workers in the
May Day celebrations yesterday, the
capitalist press howled for further
repressive measures, and the Com
munist Party called for general pro-
test meetings and strikes as an ex-
preston of the workers hatred of
the murderous government that had
attacked them.
New Fighting Starts.
Reinforcements, including three
detachments of shock troops, sup
ported by armored cars, motor
trucks with searchlights, and hand
grenades, were sent to the scene of
fighting,
All inhabitants of the district
were warned by the police to keep
inside their homes, with blinds
drawn. Police said anyone seen at
a window was likely to be shot.
By midnight three persons had
been killed and 2G injured at Neu
Koelln.
Street lamps were smashed, which
plunged the district into darkness.
Heavy police forces surrounded
the district and finally all of the
armed workers concentrated behind
barricades in the Neu Koelln district.
Resistance there was so vigorous
that not even armored cars could
pierce the workers defense.
Police finally withdrew, deciding
they could not overcome the barri-
caded rioters without heavy losses.
The Reichstag, the German i'm
perial parliament, came to sudden
halt today when Communist depu-
ties vigorously sang "The Interna-
tional" as protest to the govern
ment's cynical refusal to recognize
motions condemning the slaughter
of workers when May Day demon
strators were fired upon with rifles,
revolvers, machine guns and artillery
at the orders of the social demecra-
tic chief of police Zoergiebel.
Barricades!
Yesterday, after a day in which
open air demonstrations of thous-
ands were repeatedly charged by
the socialist police chiefs 10000
extra policemen, clubbed, drenched
with water from fire hoses, ridden
down with horses and armored
tanks, the workers, following the
lead the armed Red Front fighters,
erected barricades in North Berlin
and in Koeslinger Strasse, built of
torn up gas mains and bricks and
SC strongly constructed that they
withstood the fire of machine guns
and rapid fire one FOUNDER artillery
directed against them.
A battle in the dark ragged for
three hours, with about 5000 shots
exchanged. The Red Front fighters
defended house tops, swathed in red
bunting and flying red flags, while
wave after wave of the Berlin police
advancing in military order behind
tanks and armored cars splitting fire
from machine guns was broken up
and retreated.
Disperse .Undefeated.
Only when the workers ammuni-
ton gave out and there were no
more missiles to throw, did the May
Day demonstrators disperse.
Ten workers were killed and 800
wounded, not so much during the
fighting as during the police attacks
on the unarmed, densely packed
crowds before the barricades were
erected.
The police made indiscriminnta
arrests, dragging prominent work
ing class leaders from every plat
form, and continued the search and
arrests all through this morning,
after the demonstrations were over.
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