The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02

war, demanding tnat all war 1
relief, calling on workers to
Young Communist League, the
revolutionary unions of the
Trade Union Unity League,
defense and relief organiza-
tons and the Friends of the
Soviet Union, met yesterday in
one of the largest and most color
full, enthusiastic and determined
demonstrations that has been held
here.
Police Trap.
Workers were not beaten up on
Union Square, as is the custom with
Tammany police thugs, but the po-
lice set trap for them as they left
the square after the meeting was
over.
A line of police and one mounted
man drove a considerable number
down 18th ST., past Irving Plaza
Hall. Irving Plaza had been Sc.
cretly filled with police. AS the
workers passed, singing, the police
charged out and fell upon them with
clubs and blackjacks.
Workers heard the first detach-
ment of police yell, as they emerged
from the hall: "Come on, let's get
EN-" In this entirely unprovoked
assault some so workers were
beaten, and five so severely that
they are in the hospital, where at
least one may die.
Brain Commissions.
The most seriously injured seems
to be Harry Norman, Y. C. l.. men,
Der, his skull probably fractured by
a policeman's blow and with contu-
sions of the brain. He was uncon-
scious at late hour last night.
Henry Noah, a member of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, is in Bellevue Hospital with
Commissions and probable skull frac-
ture. Police took him, after they
had dubbed him, to the Jewish
Workers University, held him on the
floor and tortured him with kind
of third degree. Policeman 1902
did the questioning.
Girl Knocked Senseless.
Beatrice Deer, Young Communist
League member, was knocked I'M
conscious and carried bleeding into
the Workers Center. Another young
girl worker was slugged into IN
consciousness by the police.
Two ex-service men were badly
beaten. One is John Simon, a Ne
gro, who fought back and injured
his hand defending himself. John
Sibert was the other ex-service man,
badly beaten about the head and
with his knee wounded.
Tony Lejuidice was badly beaten
over the head with a blackjack as he
tried to help other workers being
dubbed. j. Levine was cut on the
back of the head while supporting
another worker dazed by a police
mans club.
Four police in front if him die
not dare to hit him, but a detective
blackjacked him from behind.
Drive Reporters Away.
George Morgan was hit on the
head and foot when he tried to stop
policeman from beating up another
worker. j. Pasks was dubbed or
the arch of the foe George Mas.
tropoles was hit il the eye with a
blackjack. He wa cent home.
An unemployed worker was badly
beaten, SO that stitches were put in
his head. He was then kicked out
of Bellevue Hospital.
Reporters who tried to see the
beating were themselves beaten
One was the International News re-
porter. Photographers who tried to
take pictures were chased for blocks.
Among those arrested are known
to be Peter Malone and Abraham
Goodman.
A Negro worker, selling Labor
Defenders, was struck in the jaw.
White Cops Jim Crow Negroes.
After the demonstration white
police refused to ride back to their
stations in wagons with Negro po-
lice. The Negro police were Jim
Crowed, and took it, in the sight of
hundreds of workers.
AT the demonstration prominent
speakers were Max Bedacht of the
Central Committee of the Commu-
$40 tp"'9, who : lied by the on
don conference as merely prepara.