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RESIST POLICE
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not exhibit after the cops tore up
the banners.
More and more police arrived
from City Hall and elsewhere in an
effort to scatter the fighting work
ers. Even when a dozen attacked
small groups of workers who had
been cut off from the main demon
stration, they met with stern re-
sistance.
By this time a dozen arrests had
been made, the police venging them
selves on the arrested workers by
punching and clubbing them mer-
cilessly, after they were able to pull
a few of the workers out Of the
ranks of the main body of the
demonstration.
Several speakers mounted the
elevated steps across the street from
City Hall and the main crowd of
workers in the demonstration
massed in front of them to with
stand the attacks of the police.
/. Amter spoke for several min
utes with 80 or 40 police trying to
break the ranks. Several traffic
cops Joined the others and they met
more fight from the workers who
prevented them from arresting the
speakers.
James Ford spoke in front of the
Federal Building and was arrested.
A representative of the Spanish
Workers Club was pulled down after
the crowd surged across the street
in front of the Woolworth Build
ing.
Whenever the police saw a few
demonstrators leave the crowd, after
the meetings were drawing to a
close, they would pounce on them,
beat and arrest them.
Those arrested and beaten were
James Ford, Edward Childs, Totaro
Hari, Sophie Beebe, Jack Schwartz,
Herman Hinkel, Shirley Under, Ada
Ginsberg, Helen Herman, Sylvia
Daniels, Ann Wolf, Gussie Razinsky,
James Mo, Victor Ricardo, Beninto
Gerion, Echo Wella and Nathan
Singer.
Other workers were beaten vi
ciously, but managed to pull them
selves out of the cops clutches. One
/ cop suffered a dislocated shoulder
when he attempted to beat one of
the workers. Ashamed to admit his
defeat he told reporters he had
slipped on the ice" (There was
no ice Saturday,
Several of Whalen's finest" did
little rolling around in the muddy
street. Two or three others plunged
with swinging clubs into singing
groups of workers and emerged a
moment later without clubs OF
badges. Others were roughly ham
died in spite of their clubs and
horses when they tried to trample
down men, women. and children.
| Following the demonstration In
Park Row the workers assembled
in front of the Cooperative and in
Union Square and persisted in their
protests. Several speakers addressed
the thousands who participated.
When the arrested workers were
brought before Louis B. Brodsky he
hypocritically informed the prison
ers that "Any citizen, or any num-
Der of citizens, has the right to
gather, but it must be done in an
orderly manner" He did not say
anything about the brutal and dis
orderly conduct of the police when
they strove with might and main to
break up the unyielding ranks of
tn demonstration.
Comrades Ricardo and Gerion
were sentenced to one day in jail
Schwartz received two-day sem
tence. Ford and Childs got one day
in jail. Comrades Razinsky, Lin
der, Wella and Singer were re-
leased on a suspended sentence, and
the others who were well trounced
by the police were discharged.
l. Amter, district organizer of the
Communist Party, District 8, issued
tn following statement after the
demonstrations:
"The purpose of our demonstra-
ton was to protest the sending OF
marines and warships to Haiti and
to protest against the savage muir
der of the workers and the peasants
of Haiti. 7