The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-29
"To defend the Soviet Union.

''To defend the Soviet Union.
'In this fight the Walker halen-
Tammany police carried out the ord
ers' of the bosses of the city, the
bankers and manufacturers and shot
down Katovis. The breaking up Of
the demonstration at City Hall by
Whalen's cossacks shows clearly
that the capitalists are prepared to
meet the demands of the workers
with clubs. Whalen says he will in
vestigate. Investigate whether he,
carried out the bosses orders to beat
the workers like tsaristic cossacks?
"The police were aided by the yell
low socialist party, by Norman
Thomas, who sees only needless
and stupid police brutality"-and
thus favors brutality of the police
toward the workers but not toe
much to make martyrs" of them.
The socialist party, who sat in BAN
quet with the counter revolutionist,
Ambramovich, with socialist gangs
ters and the underworld, while Steve
Katovis lay in his coffin, shot down
by Whalen's Tammany police, the
friends of socialists.
''In the fight, the Walker Whalen-
Tammany police were aided by the
American Federation of Labor Off
cialdom, who betray the workers,
who will not organize them but help
the bosses to keep the conditions of
the workers down.
Workers of New York:
Steve Katovis will always be re-
membered by the workers. He
showed how Communist lives and
dies-a fighter for his class. Hat
ing the capitalist iclass-and in the
fight is shown down by the fools of
the capitalist class.
Workers of New York: One
thousand workers must jump into
the place left vacant by Steve IA
tovis. One thousand militant work
ers of New York must take his place
in the Communist arty, determined
to carry on the fight against the
murderers of the working class,
against the capitalists who rob US,
beat us up, Jail us, Shoot US down,
murder US. That must be our an
swer to our class enemies.
"Join the Communist Party;
build up the fighting industrial
unions; fight against the coming
imperialist war, defend the Soiet
Union!
Our fight is not only against the
Walker Whalen Tammany police:
Our fight is against the entire capt.
talist system. We must organize to
smash it, following the path of the
Russian workers, and establish in
the United States"
The leaflet ended with an appli-
cation blank to join the Communist
Party.
Capitalist Underestimation.
A police captain, talking to re-
porters, estimated the crowd at co.
900 and sair, But you guys pay
too much attention to these fellows.
Put it in as 5,O00.p Some of the
early editions of the capitalist press
actually said 5000. Later they.
grudgingly admitted number from
10000 to $4,000.
This captain admitted 500 police
were on the grounds, with huge
forces held in reserve, ambushed up
the side streets. In addition, many
plain clothes police in addition to
the patrolmen circulated around,
trying to hide behind reporters
cards in their hats. They were easily
recognized and the workers jeered at
them. The police department had at
first tried to prevent any demon
stration at all. Now they merely
try to claim a victory oyer the line
of march.
Huge forces Of police were massed
up Broadway to break up the process
sion if it should go that way, as at
first announced. Whalen and his
bosses, above all did not want the
workers in the garment section to
see Katovis' dead body pass, the
product of the policies murderous
zeal for lower wages and worse con-
ditions for the workers. But thou
sands of needle workers came down
to take part in the funeral.
When the procession, marching Il |
or 16 abreast for most Of the way,
eight blocks long, with thousands |
swarming along the sidewalk at the
sides, with hundreds of thousands
watching it, reached 23d st. on
Fourth Ave., the Tammany club
wielders cut it off, and drove re-
naming thousands back into Union
Square. Some 5000 were still there
at 3 p. m.
The Attack That Failed.
1t had evidently been intended to
stage On attack ON the demnstra-