The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-11
IT. LOUIS AND CHICAGO JOBLESS PREPARE FOR DEC MARCH

charged into it, and finally broke its
formation and drove part of it south
ward. Police Commissioner Carr and
Marshall O'Brien were breaking their
own capitalist law and violating even
Carrs proclamation, which admits
that peaceful picketing is legal AS in
the case of the Monomac attack
Thursday, the strikers were deprived
of the right to simply walk down the
sidewalk
The strikers did not accept the de-
cision of the police, however. They
came back in few minutes, and they
came reinforced by such thousands
that they flooded past the police
barrier and moved down like wave
past the mill. The mounted police
drove them from the mill gates time
after time, but could not stop the
picketing'' About five o'clock, an es-
pecially heavy force OF mounted poll
ice drove part of the pickets south
on Broadway and away from the mill.
Even then many of the strikers
circled around the blocks, got behind
the police and continued to walk up
and down on the sidewalk opposite
the mill entrances. They were there
long after five o'clock.
When the mounted police first
struck the line marching up Broa-
way, at the beginning of the picketing,
Marshal O'Brien and his bodyguard
of dicks Withplenty of uniformed
police to support them seized Martha
Stone, Marie lie Grand, and twenty
others at the head OF the line and
threw them in cars. The girls we're
severely jerked around, and some of
them pickets we're beaten up in the
police cars. Stone and LeGrand were
charged with intimidation" and
lettering" and are out on $1,000 bail
each. Some of the others have both
charges and are held on $1,000 bail,
and others have but one charge and
their bail is $500. Both Martha Stone
and Marie LeGrand are members OF
the National Textile Workers Union
and are picked captains for the Uni
ted Front Rank and File Strike Com
mittee.
1t was part of the police program
to mistreat prisoners Monday. When
Capuani was lodged in the lookup,
burly policemen beat him up until his
face was a mass of bruises and blood
was running down, When Fred Bed
enkapp was seized, police kicked and
| kneed him. Biedenkapp, secretary of
the United Front Rank and File
Strike Committee was arrested on the
Wood Mill picket line in the morn
ing and is now out on $1,000 ball.
charged with intimidation" and loi-
tering." Simon Harzigian, Commu-
mist candidate for city engineer and
member of the Strikers Defense Com
mittee, was arrested with Biedenkapp.
He was similarly beaten and kicked
when arrested, has the same charges
against him. and is now free on the
same bail. Bail Monday was all high,
$500 and $1,000 in most cases. Bill
Dunno, here representing the Ma
tional Board of the Trade Union
Unity League, is out on $500 bail.
The Lincoln Court lot meeting
which started the march on the Ar
lington mill Monday afternoon was
militant and enthusiastic. John
Fusco, president of tn Washington
Mill local of the National Textile
Workers Union pointed out that the
strike has just started, the real right
is just now beginning. after all sorts
of tricks and lies by the U. T. W. and
the bosses to befog the issue. He
scored Cars proclamation against
effective picketing, and declared for
the right to picket. He wound up his
address with a ringing call for all to
picket the Arlington. Magetti of the
National Textile Workers Union and
Italian organizer Of the United Front
Rank and File Strike Committee spoke
in italian along the same line.
Nat Kaplan, district organizer of
the Communist Party, and member of
the N. T. W., analysed the present
position of the strike, pointing out
that the thousands, of pickets who
came out Monday morning in spite of
the hints of the U. T. w. leaders that
they should 60 back to work, showed
the determination to win of the Law
renee strikers. Put hot water bottle
to your feet" he advised any who
might be faint-hearted, I'VE never
lost a strike here before, and we are
winning this one"
1.-THE U. T. w. said yesterday that
they were trying to prevent the strike
and today they are trying to demora-
lie 1t by dividing the workers up
into craft meetings and trying them
to stampede back to work." said
Kaplan.
Kaplan called for election OF new
delegates to the United Front Rank
and File Strike Committee, and for
vigorous mass picketing. He scored
Cars provocative proclamation. He
took vote on marching from Lin
coin Court to the Arlington, and re-
ceiyed a great response for the sug-
gestion. Immediately after the meet
ing, the march started, the pickets
singing the songs of the National