The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-27
THOUSANDS
DEMONSTRATE
At CITY NALL
w ork ers Militantly
Fight Police

(COntiu1 ed from Pare One)
which was then entertaining the
white guard Russian, Abramovitch,
within. 1t was while police were en-
forcing a socialist injunction at Mil
ler's Market that Patrolman Harry
Kiritz shot Katovis in the back. Ka-
fowls was there attending the soil
darity mass meeting across the
street called by the Trade Union
Unity League, January Is.
Arrests Start Early.
The demonstration at City Hall
had been openly announced by the
/ Communist press and handbills. Be
fore it started, l. Sobel, Kleinman,
Korse, Nat Rosenfeld, Leon Trudder
and Michael Veddi were arrested for
distributing leaflets.
About 200 police, 25 mounted po-
lice were stationed in long lines
around the City Hall Park in the
afternoon. Masses of patrolmen
and plain clothes men were in City
Hall itself. Detectives circulated
through Il = pa :.
The crowd began to gather shortly
aftcr II. By 1925 it was growing
rapidly, detachments of demonstra-
tors arriving on the west side in or
ganized manner. At 1885 some
1900 surged over the police lines
blocking the west side of the park,
grouped in front of the City Hall
steps, and displayed placards, rising
over the crowd like a forest: Down
With Capitalist Police Brutality"
"Steve Katovis Was Murdered at
the Bosses Orders" Judge Vitalie
and the Underworld, That Is Capt.
talist Justice" Defend the Soviet
Union," "Organize the morgan
led" "Join the Communist Party"
"Relief for the Unemployed" Eight
Low Wages and the Speed-up,"
"Steve Katovis Died Like a Worker
on the Firing Line" etc.
Speakers on the Steps.
They Wouldn't Quit
As fast as one crowd was broken
another formed, at a slightly differ
ent point. The crowd on the munic-
ipal building side reformed eight
separate times.
The police had evidently been
given orders to beat up the workers
instead Of arresting them. When A.
Boskoff, carpenter, saw a couple
of policemen jerking in opposite
directions at girl worker, nearly
tearing her in two, he waded in on
the nearest and a real skirmish took
place as other police and other
workers joined in. Mounted police
finally surrounded Boskoff and ar
rested him, and when he was brought
to the station the desk sergeant
said, "What did YOU arrest this man
for? You were supposed to beat
him up outside!
Herman A. Tillman, a business
man and socialist party member,
got little lesson in the class strug-
gle and found out what the police
are for. He accidentally mixed in
the crowd when his auto was
stopped. Police saw he did not haxe
hat on and dubbed him. He ran,
screaming that he was a business
man and hid in the basement of
restaurant. The police hunted him
down and dubbed him some more.
God damn yuh, I'll make bust
ness man of yuh," said a patrolman
as he kicked Tillman up the steps.
Reporters found him covering in
Mushroom of the Sixth Ave. cell"
trying to show everybody his card,
why, I'm not Communist, I'm a
business man." he said.
Another who found out what the
state means was student. He was
observed trying to tell policeman,
"You have no right to strike me
Workers Industrial League.
National Food Workers Indus
trial League.
National Shoe and Leather Work |
ers' Indvhtrial League.