The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-15
TRY COMMUNISTS
MONDAY, AUG. 10
Victims Of Police At
tack on Rally
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the Communist Party in Harlem
Tuesday night was set for next
Monday, when the case came up in
the Magistrates Court in the 18th
Manhattan District yesterday after
noon. 1t will thus coincide with the
trial of the four arrested a week ago
at 13Sth St. and Seventh Ave-, when
police opened their campaign against
Communist open-air meetings in
| Harlem.
Those arraigned in court yester-
day were j. Louis Engdahl, Party
candidate for president of the Bor-
ough of Manhattan, who was speak
ing when police attacked; Harold
Williams, Party director of Negro
work for the New York District,
who was arrested the second time;
Leonard Patterson, of the Young
Communist League; Nat Ross, sec
rotary of the Party's election cam
paign committee for the Harlem
Section; Solomon Harper, organizer
of the Harlem Tenants League; Abe
Tomkin and Jack Rosen.
Arrested Were Beaten.
Several of those arrested were
viciously beaten by the police be-
cause they attempted to defend the
speakers against attack. All were
notified at the police station that
the district captain had issued
special orders prescribing Commu-
mist meetings on Seventh and Eighth
Avenues in Harlem. This was de-
clared to be traffic regulation.
1t was pointed out to the police
that other meetings, especially re-
ligious gatherings, were being held
along the avenues, and that repub-
lican and democratic campaign raj
lies would certainly be permitted.
"Well, the campaign hasn't
started yet" said the police heads.
"The campaign of the Communist
Party goes on the year around" de-
clared Engdahl. at is not confined
to few weeks before each election.
We intend to insist on the use of
the streets for our meetings"
The police attack grows directly
out of the successful approach of
the Communist Party to the Negro
workers of Harlem. The growing
housing crisis, with its increasing
rents, is rapidly losing support hith-
erto given to Tammany Hall and its
candidate for reelection, Mayor
Jimmy Walker, who has made many
promises but of course does nothing
to relieve the situation. "The Broad
way Butterfly in the city hall is the
best ally of the landlords, in Har-
lem as we'll as in other sections of
New York City.
While waiting in the bullpen at the
Magistrates Court for their case to
be called the Communist prisoners
held meeting with other prisoners
who Joined them in unanimously
passing resolutions, the first of
which dealt with the fight for the
streets and stated, in part:
For Race, Class Unity.
"Negro and white workers! De-
fend your right to the streets! Fight
police oppression and brutality.
Fight for the right to educate the
masses and mobilize the working
class against imperialism and i'm
perialist wars. For the abolition of
lynching. For free Africa. For a
free Federated West Indies, con-
trolled by the Negro workers. For
the withdrawal of American ma
rine murderers from Haiti and Nj
caragua. For the full emancipation
of the Negro masses of the United
States. For the right of self-deter-
mination for the Negro masses of
the South. For full race equality:
political, social, economic. Long
live the first Workers Republic.
For the defense Of the Soviet Union.
Long live the Chinese revolution"
Resolutions were also adopted by
the prisoners demanding betted con-
ditions in the prison cells.