The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-24

cester. Thousands of leaflets are be-
ing issued for this meeting.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. 22.-The
Sacco-Vanzetti mass meeting in
Pittsburgh took place today aug
22) in East Park in spite of a 30-day
sentence given Borisov Chorny for
distributing handbills advertising it
and in spite Of an announcement by
the police department that it would
be broken up unless the meeting
place was changed to West Park.
I'll do all in my power to-keep it
out of East Park" said Police In
spector Faulkner of the North Side
today before the meeting. Six po-
licemen in uniform, including both
Negro and white police, a lieutenant
and a squad of plain clothes men,
we're around the meeting, but did
not attack it.
The evening papers here recount a
jurisdictional quarrel over which
park the meeting should be in be-
tween Superintendent of Parks
Moore and the police department.
The declaration by the police that
the meeting place would have to be
changed came after handbills had
been distributed advertising it for
East Park, which is in a much more
proletarian neighborhood than West
Park. The police announcement was
made through the press a few hours
before the meeting was to start, in
n evident attempt to disrupt it.
The International Labor Defense
decided without waiting for the end
of the arguments among the officials
of the corrupt city administration
here to hold the meeting in the place
originally selected.
Yesterday Charnoy's wife and nine
children appeared at the police sta
ton and demanded that all be locked
up with her husband, as with Char
noy in Jail they had nothing to eat.
The Pittsburgh meeting made a
good display of placards: Free the
Camp Hill Prisoners" Halt the De-
portations and Prosecution of For
eign Born Workers" Down With
Lynching and Mob Violence" Free
the Imperial Valley Prisoners" Re
lease the Scottsboro Nine" eve De-
mand All Striking Miners Out of
Jail" I'VE Fight for Full Equality
of Negro and White Workers" self
Determination for the Negro Masses
in the South" etc.
The chairman was District Secre-
tary irving of the International La
Dor Defense, and speakers were:
Edith Briscoe, Metal Workers In
dustrial League; Ben Carruthers
Negro)) for the League of Struggle
for Negro Rights; Paul Bohus, Ma
tional Miners Union organizer;
Fisher, of the Unemployed Councils;
Liss, for the Communist Party; a
Young Communist League speaker,
and Richard B. Moore for the LID.
GARDNER, Mass.-About 100
workers demonstrated here today,
demanding the release of all class
war prisoners, in commemoration of
the death Of Sacco and Vanzetti,
The main speaker was Max Lerner
DETROIT, Aug. 23.-Twenty thou
sand Negro and white workers dem
onstrated here at Grand Circuit
Park on Sacco-Vanzetti and Amnesty
Day in spite of police terror and ef-
forts to prevent the demonstration
In addition 1000 demonstrated in
North Detroit. The mayor had de-
MED permit for demonstration at
City Hall.
There we're also large demonstra-
tons in Berkly Lincoln and Battle
Creek
ST. LOUIS, Aug 23-Two hundred
and fifty workers demonstrated here
IN Aug. % for amnesty to all class
war prisoners, the release of the
5cottsboro boys and against boss
terror.
BOSTON, Aug. 23--Within a
stones throw of the Massachusetts