The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-07
10000 Demonstrate
in New York City

cfs and the unemployed TO present
their demands to Mavor Walker at
the City Hall. The committee was
sent at l:55 to demand of Police
Commissioner Grover Whalen, ems
conced behind barrier of brass-cap
police officials and humorous pa
trolmen in the so-1alled garden
house," facing the speakers at the
north cid of Union Sluare. Swarms
of police had kept the crowd back
from the Whalen headquarters dur
ing the demonstration with the idea
evidently to let the speakers words
be heard only by the 10000 or so
who could gather at the north end
and in 18th st. This strategy of
the police was nullified by placing
speakers also on the contractors
hut in the center of the park.
In a few minutes Foster stepped
on the stand at the north end of
the square and reported: "Whalen
and the city officials have handed
Broadway and other streets over to
every monarchist and militarist ex-
ploiter of Europe and America to
parade on, but now when the work
ers and the unemployed workers of
New York demand the use of these
streets, Whalen's answer is that
they cannot have them! Will you
take that for an answer?
A tremendous shout of "No" burst
from the crowd.
"Well march down Broadway to
the City Hall and present these de-
mands to Mayor Walker" said
Foster.
March Begins.
Instantly the whole mass at the
north end of the square was in mo-
ton, moving west, under a forest of
some $50 placards Haunting the slo-
gans of the unemployed, denouncing
police brutality, calling on the work
ers to join the Communist Party,
the International Labor Defense, the
Young Communist League and the
Trade Union Unity League unions.
AS the crowd moved it burst into
the chorus of the international.
Police charged into it on horse
and foot. They dubbed right and
left at those carrying the workers
slogans. A section was split off and
moved south on Union Square west,
brushing aside the police who tried
to stop it, until solid line of pa
trolmen was encountered stretched
across the street between 18th and
10Th STREETS. Part of the workers
filtered through this line, and 9TH
ers swept up onto the raised ground
in the center of the square, gradu-
ally drawing into the march those
listening to speakers there.
Battle When Cops Attack.
While this was going on sharp
battle ragged at the north end, the
crowd cut off from the march turn
ing against the police who were bat
tering them with clubs. One police
man, Arthur Talbot, got such stiff
defense from an employed worker
whose head he was trying to beat
off that the cop is in the hospital
with what is said to be fractured
skull. Several other police were put
out of the fight. The fire hose was
tuyned on the jobless. In spite of
Whalen's army of guards he is said
to have been "mauled" by the crowd.
There are at least hundred work
ers in the hospital, wounded by the
brutality of the police attack.
Among them are known to be Victor
Dyer, head broken; Leon Lewis,
same; l.. Gordon, trampled by a
horse; Arvid Langknickle, dubbed
on the head.
James Del Priore, an ex-service-
man who served with the A. E. F.
in France, had just come out of the
18th st. subway on his way to
hospital. He saw the mass unem-
ployment demonstration and went
tc listen to the speakers. Just at
that moment the cops charged the
crowd. He was beaten over the
head by a club. His scalp was
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ers lroke through the police lines
and smashed some fascist heads