The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-20

that the demonstration was broken up anu
that this is the lend of Communist demon
strations in Milwaukee" The capitalist press
unanimously applauded Mayor Hoan's stand.
The trade union bureaucrats We're lubllant
over the fact that workers were dubbed by the
police.
Charles S. Thurber, president of the Mil
waukee Building Trades Council, issued the
following statement after the demonstration;
1--WE are glad it is over and that the organ
ization has been broken up and its hall closed.
| have watched the activities OF these people
very closely for the last two months, and have
seen their gatherings growing from Just
handful to thousands. tour emphasls) Inc
Milwaukee police department has been very
patient with them. They started it and the
Milwaukee police department made good job
finishing it From an office directly across
the street, | was in position to observe
everything that took place at 9th st. and jun
eau Ave We witnessed the four horsemen
come down the sidewalk, dispensing the crowd
right and left. We saw hundreds OF uni
formed police keep curious crowd on the
move; we saw two dozens of motorcycle ponce
surrounding the entire neighborhood. There
were also many squads of plain clothesmen
who mingled with the crowd, AMI would &C.
casionay arrest someone Jeerlng the actlVl-
ties of the uniformed police. Again | say the
this crowd very fair treatment. The exception
l refer to was an over anxious plain clothes
man who went out of his way to rap the heads
of several persons, who in my opinion, were
just curious and standing by"
All the incidents and facts, both in the DEM
onstration and prior to the demonstration
proved that the attack was no accident, but
the execution of a well prepared plan. First
of all, they tried to cripple the demonstration
by arresting IL comrades that were distribut-
ing leaflets.
On Saturday, prior to the demonstration,
they attacked the Pioneers demonstration and
arrested four League members. On the 18th
they used Scarborough, who has been exposed
since as stool pigeon of the bosses, in an
attempt to discredit the whole movement and
thereby lay the basis for attacking it.
The newspapers have been whoopng up a
war spirit against the demonstration ever
since the Goth. Stool pigeons were being sent
into the Council every day; they were being
bounced out at the rate of two and three a
day.
First, a stool pigeon who wore the button
of the American Legion, drew knife to stab
a Negro comrade. He was at grabbed
by the neck and thrown out of the crowd.
When the demonstration began to march, a
truck driver deliberately drove into the crowd
of workers. 1t is now rumored that this truck
driver was detective. The fact that no
was injured was only due to the timely action
of the workers, who handled him effectively
by stopping his truck pulling him out, and
giving him proletaran lesson as to how to
behave in face of working class demonstra-
TONS
The open role of social fascism is shown to
work in perfect unison and harmony with the
police and capitalist stool pigeons
But the great upsurge of the masses, the
rapid drift to the left the r"4'""f~"';r'
workers is creating a rift in the ranks Of the
socialist party
part of the socialist machine, which thinks
that it can more effectively fool the workers
by posing their friends, by assuming a
cleft" role, seemingly expressed it's dissatis-
faction with the methods of the police They
assumed this role in order to direct the strug-
gle of the masses into social reformist and,
therefore, to the capitalist class not dangerous,
channels.
They demanding an investigation"
of the causes of the riot" as if it was not
as clear daylight what the causes are; that
is, the open role of fascism is assumed by the
state and the social democratic machine. They
come forward with the opinion that the cos
sacks should not have been used, and the
right of assemblage should not have been vio-
lated. They are trying to make it appear that
the fight with the police was provoked by
newspaper reporters who wanted some excite
ment IN order to get good story, and not by
the police themselves
While Mayor Hoan and the gang of social
fasclsts have been completely exposed as enc
mics of the working class, these so-called
left" socialists must be mercilessly showed
aside because they part of the S. P. ma
chine and the capitalist class, only with diff
terent appearance in order to fool the workers.
The Party's prestige through these strug-
giles, and especially through the police attack
has been raised to an unprecedented level For
instance, in the railroad shops, where we have
no organized Communists, when the supern-
tendent called the workers together before the
demonstration warned them against partici-
pating in it, and asked how many workers
were Communists about forty hands went up,
knowing fully well that they were facing dis
charge by doing so. Money and support has
been coming in from all SIDES The workers.
both white and Negro, giving their en-
enlargement, their expression of support
daily. So instead of having suppressed the
Communist Party, the attack, together with
the oncomng trial, raised the struggle of the
workers led by the Party to its highest poll
teal level-the struggle against the whole
capitalist class and their state machinery
The trial itself will be used as further Of
fensive by the Party against the capitalist
class and all its hangers-on. The slogan of
the Party is. for every jailed Communist ten
new members. This is meeting big response
Intensive preparations are made by the