Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-21
RADICALS ASSA|L
POLICE FOR HAL TING
AVENUE MEETING
Drive to Arouse Interest Con-
tinues as Church and School
DefenseS Are Laid.
HUNDRED C0L0RED
PEOPLE IN CROWD
Arrangements Reported Under Way
for Gathering in Defiance
of Law.

lens" here and abroad, radical leaders
continued today their drive to arouse
interest in their cause" among stu
dents, workers and others.
The latest of a series of daily meet
tngs under Communist or workers "
auspices was held yesterday afternoon
in the hall of the Young Communists
League, on Seventh street, with five
policemen and 100 colored men and
women composing the audience. The
police heard themselves aSsailed for
breaking up a Communist street meet
ing Wednesday night at Seventh street
and Pennsylvania avenue.
Plans we're being made today for an
executive meeting of the "Unemploy-
tomorrow, when arrangements for an
other street meeting in defiance of the
police will be discussed.
Concern Over Russia.
Just as school circles here have be-
come stirred by the arrest of a Central
High School girl during the wednes-
day night demonstration and her claims
of membership of 800 students in
the young communists movement, To-
cal church leaders are manifesting con-
Germ over reports of religious persecu-
ton in Russia
Plans for mass meeting to protest
the Soviets' reported ban on religion
are being discussed by a group of prom
inent clergymen, 1t is understood. Right
Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of
Washington. is said to be one of those
interested in the proposal. A meeting
in large hall on March or has
been suggested, but nothing definite
has been decided.
The meeting in the hall, at 1887
Seventh street, last night was sponsored
BY the Trade Union Unity League of
America.
Similar meetings have taken place
daily since wednesday a week ago and
are for the purpose of organizing the
unemployed of Washington until they
reach sufficient numerical strength to
march TO the District authorities and
make their demand Of work or wages"
Class War Urged.
Then If they can do nothing for
us, one Of the speakers declared, per
haps we will do something for our
selves" Another speaker urged class
war and the establishment of a govern
ment of workers and farmers. Still
another openly defied the police. saying
that outdoor meetings will be held
whether or not permit is granted.
The next meeting will probably take
place Monday evening. A session of
Liz EAGCuIlfE GOLlIQlEIGc. Oh IUe On-
employed Council will decide on the
exact time and place tomorrow after
noon at 2:30 O'Clock
Two Of the speakers were among the
eight persons who were arrested We'd
nesday night. They are George G.
Carter. chairman of the Unemploy-
ment Council, and Thomas walker of
North Carolina, now touring the coun-
try for the National Council. Both are
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the meeting, Sam Leibowitz and Nathan
Brown, are white. They are members
OF the executive committee of the Wash
1ngton Council.
Walker was particularly emphatic in
his denunciation of what he claimed
was discrimination and persecution Of
his race in the South
There were no white persons in the
audience with the exception of the
policemen and those arranging the
meeting. The latter included several
members of the Young Communist
League and the Young Pioneers, both
boys and girls
The police. led by Capt. o. T. Davis
Of the second precinct, were present in
obedience to the order of the superin-
tendent Of police, Mai Henry G. Pratt
that police captain attend every meet
ing of radical nature held in his ter
ritory.
Recruits in Schools.
A year of Communist seed sowing"
in the local high and junior high schools
by organizers of a Young Communist
Club movement has netted from so to
800 recruits, Of whom but a handful
appear to have caught the enthusiasm
Of their leaders, survey by The Star
discloses
The seeds have been sown in all the
senior and junior high schools in the
form Of minneographed and printed
propaganda distributed surreptitiously
in locker rooms, Fairgrounds and
stadiums.
The bulletins, pamphlets, unsigned
letters and posters undoubtedly have
come to the attention of most of the
10000 children attending the high
schools, but the great mass of students
has been unmoved by the pleas to fight
the bosses" resist militarism and join
forces with 1.-THE workers"
From school sources comes the
"gueSs' that perhaps half-a-hundred
students have lined-up in the radical
cause" while the higher. estimate is
that of Helen Colodny, the Central
High School girl who was arrested
Wednesday night for participating in
young Communists" demonstration
at Seventh street and Pennsylvania
avenue.
Policy Of Authorities.
School authorities seem to have be-
come less excited over the red" &C
tivities than have the students and
their parents. Up till now the policy
of the school administration has been
to belittle the movement by failing tC
dignity it with public recognition. This
policy is in line with the ideas OF
President Hoover, who recently ordered
the release of youthful pickets arrested
in front of the White House with the
suggestion that they be sent to theil
parents and with the implied advice
that they be spanked.
All along. however, Franklin Schoo
officials have been collecting samples
OF the propaganda found in the public
schools, and have been seeking to pre-.
vent further violations of the regula.
ton against unauthorized distribution
of reading matter in the schools or or
school property.
The first definite pronouncemen
tending to lend official cognizance Il
the Communists drive was issued yes
terday by Asst. Supt. Stephen e. Kra
mer, in charge Of high school admins
traticn, who advocated a constructive
campaign Of "Americanism" rathe
than campaign Of denunciation, a
the best means Of combating Iradicalisn
In the schools.
Much of the literature which ha
found its way into the students hand
urges them to contribute their ideas o