The daily worker., 1930-03-04
FASCIST TERROR AGAINST
THE WORKERS BY THE
CHICAGO POLICE
Statement by the Communist Party [. S. A.,
District Eight.

Statement by the Communist Party l. 5. A.,
District Eight.
THE Thompson machine initiating the fas-
cst method of Mussolini, tonight raded the
office Of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, arrestng its organizer, I. Feingold.
Within the past week it has broken up the
march of the unemployed workers to the City
Hall last Friday, raided and broke up the meet
ing of the unemployed workers held last Wed.
nesday, brutally slugged the assembled workers
there and arrested over three hundred, includ-
ing Nels Kjar, the organizer of the Trade
Union Unity League. All this was done under
the personal supervision of Commissioner Siege,
notorious for his long prison record The work
ers in the police station were so brutally beaten
up that four of them Civilians, Negro organ
izer of the Communist Party Neson, organizer
of the Unemployed Council, Jackson, Negro
ganizer of Young Communist League, and Alex
ander. organizer of the Workers international
Relief were taken to the hospital in a very
serious condition. The fascist police especially
singled out the Negro and foreign-born work
ers for their brutal slugging. Without charges
booked against the prisoners" they have been
brutally tortured by third degree methods and
crowded into cells having not the slightest
semblance of sanitary conditions and practical
ly all of the prisoners have been forced to stand
up day and night for lack of room. Nor is any
regard shown for the women prisoners" The
meetings of the unemployed workers ar
ranged under the auspices of the Chicago Coun-
Gil of the Unemployed, affiliated to the Trade
Union Unity League.
Workers AItancy Not Broken.
Big Bill Thompson, and his fascist gang,
grows desperate and wild in failing to break
the miltancy of the unemployed workers,
much so, that he does not even permit the
showing of the Russian picture ''Ivan the Ter
ribe.' Meetings of workers are broken up by
the police with sluggng that we'll com.
pete with Mussolini's fascist blackshirts. All
this is done in the hope of terrorzing the work
ers, of preventing the workers from participat-
ing in the big international demonstration of
the unemployed to be held before the City Hall
at noon on March 6.
The complete violation by the Thompson ma
chine of the right of the workers to meet and
discuss ways and means to fight against un-
employment is done the direct orders of
the bosses, whose loyal servant Mr.. Thompson
is. Hoovers lying propaganda about prosperity
failed in its purpose to prevent the workers
from fighting. With the sharpening crisis
with unemployment, wage cuts and the speed
up steadily increasing, the bosses resort to open
fascist methods to put the burden of the crisis .
on the shoulders of the working class and pre-
vent them from taking the counter-offensive
against the capitalists.
In the United States there are at least
million men and women unemployed and many
more will be thrown out of factories and mines
as the crisis deepens. In Chicago alone, there
are 100000 unemployed workers Just the
other day by decision of the court, 400 work
ers families were evicted from their houses
because they were out of work and unable to
pay rent.
The answer of the bosses to the demand of
the workers for work wages is fascist bru-
tality. While Mayor Thompson and his gang