The daily worker., 1929-05-25
NIT COP TERROR
At Big Meeting
Lifshitz, Obermeier and
Engdahl to Speak
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ion have been mercilessly beaten up
md thrown into Jail for exercising
heir right to picket and organize,
Mr.. Grove Whalen has the affront-
ary to come out with a statement
hat the. police should interpret the
ecent court of appeals decision in
he case of Reed VS.. Whiteman, 238,
New York, to permit two pickets
wearing placards to walk abreast
With two more behind them, in front
# the place which they had left on
trike." In the face of this declara-
ion we find that in the present cafe
aria strike, as soon as worker ap-
lcars on the picket line he is hauled
Immediately into the nearest jail.
Workers Have Injuries.
"Mr. Whalen's claim that the pol
ce nightsticks are used only for self
efcrse is convincingly disproven by
he injuries and bruises of hundreds
f striking cafeteria workers who
ave done nothing more than exer-
ise their right to picket and in do
ne SO have been brutally dubbed
Without the slightest provocation by
re coscacks of Mr.. Whalen and Mr..
Walker.
"The working class of this city
must not let up in its efforts to
reak down this reign of police ter
or against labor. 1t must merci-
essly fight against this effort to
rush the attempts to organize and
trike for better conditions. This Is
he fight not only of the striking
afeteria workers, not only of the
urriers who are about to go on
trike, but the strike of the working
lass as whole for the elementary
light to organize and picket. For
his reason, the demonstration in
Jnion Square today at 1:30 assumes
paramount Importance for all work
RS. For this reason also, all work
RS should come in masses to protest
gainst police brutality, against the
rrest of Ben Lifshitz, Communist
rganizer, against the arrest of the
lioneers who demonstrated against
olice brutality. Come in thousands
nd voice your protest today in
Jnion Square at 1:3o."
Many Speakers.
Reports from the committee ar
angling the meeting indicate that
sading Communists and trade union
poakers will be on hand to speak
n the latest phases of the cossack
egime which is arousing such wide
pread resentment and Indignation
mong the workers of New York.
Among the speakers will be:
Iichael Obermeier of the striking
afeteria workers, Fred Biedenkapp
the Shoe Workers Union, Robert
Iinor, George Pershing, Ben Gold,
lose Wortis, Juliet Poyntz, Otto
Ian, Paul Crouch, J. Louis Engdahl,
j. Ballam, A. Moreau, Bert Miller,
J. BENJAMIN, Rebecca Grecht and
M. J. Olgin, with Lifshitz also ex-
ected to speak.
LID. Charges Trick.
"Ben Lifshitz is being deliberately
ept in jail in order to prevent his
ppearance at the big demonstration
oday to protest police brutality in
Jnion Square," Rose Baron, secre-
arv of the New York District of t.-c
International Labor Defense stated
esterday, and continued:
Give minutes after he was sem
enced last Saturday, jacques Bui-
enkant, attorney for the l. L. D.,
lied a petition for the court minutes
order that an appeal may be
ranted. 1t generally takes a single
ay to secure these minutes"
No Minutes.
It is now six days since Lifshitz
vas sentenced and there are still
10 minutes. 1t is usually possible to
.ecure minutes without delay. And
{ the defendant happens to be a
,erson who stole thousands Of dol
ars through big-scale graft, he is,
# course, shown the greatest cour-
esy. But if the defendant happens
be a militant worker, who is sem
snced for activity in behalf of his
lass, every obstacle is placed in the
ray of an appeal and he is kept in
all indefinitely.
"The New York District Of the
International Labor Defense con-
emns these tactics on the part of
he flunkies of Tammany Hall. 1t
alls upon all workers to demon
rate against the Tammany terror
,day and to protest against the con-
nued Imprisonment Of Lifshitz."