The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-30

through the back door, suspending
the meeting to give way to the
slaughter.
Especially brutal was the attack on
Chester Grentzback and Joseph Sgo-
VIC, smuggling them with blackiacks
and revolvers, the rest of the thugs
pulling revolvers to keep back the
angry workers.
Eight thugs were beating Grentz-
back and smuggling him while he was
already lying in blood unconscious
on the floor. Il
Meanwhile two dozen other police
and thugs were attacking the work.
.ers who were defending their lead
ers.
AS Grentzback's body was being
hauled through the city hall cor
ridor, policemen and Mayor PulIen
kicked his body while Grentzback's
blood was painting the city hall
floors red.
Wonne and children Of the Imem-
ployed wer bounced upon and kicked
by orders of the mayor and Police
Chief Hoefstaeter.
Grentzback, local delegate In the
National Hunger March and SgoYio,
district organizer of the Trade Union
Unity League and member of the I'm
employed Councils in the delegation,
are those who had been taken to the
hospital.
Workers Arrested
Wilbur Parhil1, local secretary of
the Unemployed Council and dele
gate in the National Hunger March,
Bertha Rudd, another Hunger March
delegate and Ethel Stevens, district
Young Communist League organizer,
are the additional arrested workers.
The charges against the defendants
were changed this morning from dis
orderly conduct to felony and incit-
ing to riot. They are all held without
bail. Peter Wolsky, local member of
the Unemployed Committee, was ar
rested this morning and Is held in
communicates The workers jamned
the court room, with more coming
and crowding the vicinity. The hear
ing is being held this afternoon.
Workers Enraged at Attack
The mass violation of the city Or
dinance and determined struggle for
unemployment relief was the talk OF
the hundreds of workers who refused
to leave City Hall for several hours,
listening to Stevens and the other
speakers who assailed the brutal at
tack on the workers until after, they,
too, were arrested.
The arrested we're originally held
on open charges under five hundred
dollars bail each. The police claim
that the chief and two other police
men were also injured. The claim Is
false and foreshadows new frame-up
charges against the arrested workers.
Twelve hundred families Of North
4OllOWdilSG dlC lC5looClC GU iOl 0iiCiiA~
pIoyed relief requests, but only three
hundred get two days work at 4oc
an hour. The police chief and the
mayor attended the meeting OF the
Unemployed Council last Sunday
when delegation was elected and
demands were drafted by workers at
a mass meeting
New Ordinance Precedent
The new city ordinance just passed
is a precedent il the state to outlaw
the militant organizations of the
workers. The District Committee of
the Communist Party, the Trade
Union Unity League. the Unemployed
Councils, and the International Labor
Defense appeal to the workers cf the
state TO mobilize mass protest meet
ings against the North Tonawanda
city ordinance and terror. Call mass
meetings. send kilograms to the Com
mon Council North Tonawanda, send
ing copies to the International Labor
Defense district office. Send tele-
grams to Governor Roosevelt In Al
bany. Mass protest meetings will be
held on the Niagara frontier.