The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-04
WORKERS RIFLES
HOLD HOUSE TOPS
Troops Raking Streets
With Machine Guns;
Use Airplanes
Declare State of Siege
Police Kill Everybody
at Windows
BULLETIN

LONDON, May 3.-An ex.
change telegraph dispatch from
Berlin tonight said the death
toll there had reached is.
Searchlights have been
mounted in the besieged area,
the dispatch said, and the
cracking of rifle-fire is almost
continuous. The streets are re-
ported ''spattered with blood"
Fighting is concentrated largely
in Jaeger and Handler SITS, where
the workers hold an area of several
blocks.
The Communist Party issued an
appeal to all workers today for poll
teal mass strikes against the police
terror.
| The bourgeois press is conducting
a furious anti-Communist and anti
U. S. S. K. campaign and demands
diplomatic action against the Soviet
Union.
The government has sent note to
Moscow attacking the use of floats
in the Moscow May Day parade.
These satirized the German govern
ment's spending of millions on cruis-
ers while leaving the unemployed to
starve. According to the reactionary
papers the "Prussian authorities con-
slider prohibition of all Communist
organizations and particularly the
Red Front Fighters"
| BERLIN. May G.--Once more this
afternoon the workers of Berlin rail-
lied in masses and drove the police
from streets in the proletarian dis
trict of Neu Koelln, in the southern
part of the city. More thousands of
workers are walking out on strike
at the call of the Communist Party.
Rifle firing is going on between
police in the streets and Red Front
Fighters on the housetops. Armored
cars and strong patrols of police
and shock troops, brought in to in
timidate the workers, are making
slow progress in the task set them
by the social democrat chief of po-
lice, Zoergiebel, though they are
using every military weapon, includ-
ing artillery, tanks, airpianes and
machine guns.
A "state of siege" (martial law)
|, has been declared by the govern
ment over all the Neu Koelln and
Wedding districts. The Wedding
district is across the city from Neu
Koelln. The Wedding workers rose
again today and seized several
streets after the fighting started in
Neu Koelln.
1t is officially forbidden for
workers to be on the streets, to ride
bicycles, to stand in the doorways,
to have their windows open or lights
in their rooms after 9 p. m.
The murderous socialist" chief of
police has threatened in a public an
nouncement that anybody appearing
; in window will be shot. Late this
afternoon two women were killed by
: police for merely looking out of q
window, and three workmen in
! subway were shot down by police
: angered because Communist work.
, ers further up the street had driven
them into retreat.
Residents were warned that any
one who so much as opened win
dow or lighted up room in the
martial law district would be tar
get for pistol, rifle, hand grenade or
machine gun. Zoergiebel ordered the
police to shoot without warning.
The machine guns were active
T throughout the day, firing into door
ways or onto roofs where Red Front
: Fighters shot back at uniformed
men. Armored cars, bearing the
deadly machine guns, patroiled the
! streets to reinforce police, and their
machine guns raked the streets and
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