The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-26
THOUSANDS IN
SACCO-vANzETTI.
DEMONSTRATION
Demand Release of All
Class War Prisoners

NCOHCtnUCu EFOW h9e ONt./
dreds present at the meeting at
Roosevelt and st. Louis.
But as though to prove our speak
ers' charges of police brutality and
persecution, on this evening alone
there were over fifty workers ar
rested.
Police Armed With Shot Guns.
At Goth and Homan, the police
arrived with shot guns at seven
o'clock. At Belmont and Wilton, a
corner long given over to street
meetings, the detectives covered
this corner. They decided that the
workers were thoroughly intimi-
dated and left, whereupon the LID.
held it's meeting. The police later
returned. By this time the meeting
was concluded but two workers who
were talking on the corner were ar
rested.
At the Western Electric MONDAY
meeting our speaker was arrested
and one of the workers in the plant
was taken. Through the good Of
fees of the police his foreman was
notified of his militant attitude and
today he has joined the unemployed.
The meeting held at North and
Washtenaw was broken up and over
sixteen workers spent the night in
Jail and four of them are held on
charges of disorderly conduct.
Throughout the Chicago district
Gary, Milwaukee, st. Louis and
Rockford as well as Chicago-mass
meetings were held to commemorate
Sacco and Vanzetti.
Many Meets In Pa.
The Philadelphia district of the
International Labor Defense ar
ranged ten demonstrations all over
the district. In Wilmington the po-
lice broke up the demonstration and
arrested Comrade Gittelman. In
Baltimore many workers Joined the
LID. as a result of the demonstra-
ton. Allentown, Chester, Trenton
and the Anthracite region did not
report yet the results.
In Philadelphia a night before
the demonstration six open air mass
meetings were held in working class
sections. At these meetings about
1900 workers participated.
Friday, the 22nd, at 7 p. m., the
main demonstration was held at
jefferson Square. Over 1900 work.
ers participated actively in the dem
onstration. In spite of the score of
Philadelphia policemen who aimed
to intimidate the crowd and the
speakers the workers enthusiastical-
ly cheered and applauded the speak
ers. A resolution was adopted de-
handing the immediate release of
all class war prisoners.
The speakers included: A. Fried,
chairman; ]. Kingston, secretary of
the A. N. L. c.; Louis Scott, dis
trict organizer of I. L. D.; S. Lee,
colored candidate for lieutenant gov
ernor on the Communist ticket and
Betty Gannett, organization secre-
tary of the Communist Party.
AT the demonstrations Thursday
and Friday 10 workers, about 40
penAcent Negroes, Joined the I. L. D.,
many signed the petition list pro-
testing against the Flynn Sedition
Laws, and large amount of litera-
ture was sold.
5000 in Milwaukee.
In memory of Sacco-Vanzetti.
three thousand workers came to the
Court House Square, Milwaukee, to
protest against the vicious persecu-
ton of the militant workers
throughout the country, particular
ly against the persecution in the
South.
Although the socialist" school
board granted a permit for the
meeting to the Milwaukee I. L. D.
the police, detectives and stool
pigeons were on hand to prevent the
sale of the Labor Defender and
other literature, as we'll as to pre-
vent taking a collection. In spite
of their threats, the workers con-
tributed and bought literature as
they left the demonstration.
AS result of the meeting many
Italian workers signed application
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