The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-28
CALL 10000
TO DEMAND
STRIKE AID
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ternational Labor Defense. Capuan.
is now out on bail.

is now out on bail.
LAWRENCE, Mass, Oct. 27.-De-
spite the cold winds blowing Monday
afternoon, the meeting called by the
United Front Rank and File Strike
Committee on Lincoln Court lot at
2 pm. was better attended than
usual. Hundreds of strikers gathered
there, disregarding Marshal O'Brien
who was scouting around in a car
with his usual body guard
The mass meeting voted unani-
mously at the conclusion of Bieden-
kapp's speech on the city councils
absolute refusal to see the committee
of the strikers to instruct the United
Front Rank and File Strike Commit
tee to prepare to bring 10000 for the
next demand for relief for the hun
cry and for the use of the city Com
mon for meetings.
1t was reported in the Lawrence
Evening Tribune that a long argu-
ment in the city council resulted when
the city messenger, Murphy, reported
there was big crowd outside asking
to see the council. 1t gives elaborate
attempts at justification made by
Alderman Car and Alderman Eber-
hardt for the high-handed refusal to
even consider the request. Carr is
also police commissioner and Eber-
hardt is commissioner of parks. The
gist Of their arguments is that when
these people" were denied the use
of the Common before by Eber-
hardt, they brought up stuff at their
Lincoln Court meeting against Alder
man Carr"
However, the Boston papers say
newspaper men were told before the
meeting took place that the request
to see the city council would be de-
MED.
The Lawrence paper, telling Of the
strikers picketing back and forth in
front Of the city hall, says: There
was no semblance of disorder, but
Ignazio Capuani was arrested on a
charge Of vagrancy and lettering"
Beat Up Capuani.
1t wasn't just a decision to arrest
somebody anyway. Strikers saw the
notorious ke-breaking Father"
Milanese talking to O'Brien, police
marshal, just before the arrest. Ca
puani was taken to the lookup, beaten
up In the cell and bailed out by the
Lawrence Strikers Defense Commit
tee and International Labor Defense
within a few hours. The man who
provided the 5000 bail was jerked in
front of immigration Inspector Chase
and put through a third degree
Chase assailed Harry Canter, repre-
senting the defense, for telling ar
rested men they do not have to an
Swer questions before their trial
Capuani had been out of Jail only a
couple of hours when O'Brien stopped
him again on the street for another
| quizzing. The case comes up at $50
Tuesday, and the defense will have
witnesses.
O'Brien has a habit of riding
around to all picket lines in a car
packed with tough looking detectives.
He calls this one and that one off
the picket line, puts them through a
round Of questions, and assures them,
you are responsible for whatever
happens here" Monday morning he
saw your reporter watching a picket
line of 5000 men and women at the
Wood Mill, and made him respon-
sible for the conduct of the line.
Pawtucket MIL Struck.
PAWTUCKET, r. L, Oct. H.-A
small mill here is on strike since the
evening of Oct. %. When the Sec
rotary of the National Textile Work.
ers' Union local was fired. all "a Of
the others walked out. There are
good prospects of winning the de-
mand for reinstatement.