The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-09


members of I he American Legion,
and with machine guns and revolv-
ers trained on them, the workers
were forced to line up alongside the
wall Of house.
Shot Down.
Suddenly, and without proyocation,
police started shooting with a sub
machine gun, and with pistols Sew
eral wounded by the machine gun
fell almost at once, and the other
victims began to run. Machine gun
fire and pistol shots followed them,
and several more fell and were left
lying in their pools of blood until
women in the crowd ran back to them
in spite of the danger of more shoot
ing, and gave first aid, The fleeing
workers we're dubbed as well as shot
at, and many were arrested.
Those known to be wounded are
Yves Swanson, John w Miller, Frank
Vancheskoff, Paul Palos Otto
Schultz, j, Jacobson, ]. Schulhofsky
and John Wickstrom, George Re
presas,
Stories Don't Match.
The first story issued by Police
Lieutenant Maggie declared that the
workers flouriShed knives, fired pis-
tolls and attacked and knocked over
Patrolman Bronze who carried a ma
chine gun, and that the machine gun
accidentally began shooting as it lay
on the ground, and wounded the sew
en- workers before it could be stopped
This story was contradicted by AS
sistant States Attorney Markham
whose statement was published evil
IDENTIFY without first being made to fit
that of Lieutenant Maggie. Markham
repeats the lie that the workers
were armed but says that Bronze
opened fire with the machine gun
"in self defense.
Workers Unarmed.
And with these stories are con-
tradicted by capitalist press report
ers whose stories were published be-
fore the big capitalist political leaders
realized the necessity of lying. Fol
example. the Chicago American in it!
first story, in a special edition, de-
clares:
Seven men were wounded, three
probably fatally, when MelrOse Park
police opened fire with sub machine
guns, shot guns and pistols on a
group Of 200 Communists attempt
ing an unemployed parade this
afternoon. No shots we're fired by
the Communists"
AMERICAN CAN co. RULES
Melrose Park is a suburb where
workers live, twelve miles west Of the
main business section Of Chicago. 1t,
local government is completely con.
| trolled by the American Can Co, Its
officials have a close working agree
ment with the American Legion anc
gangsters part of Al Capones ole
mob The Village President, Or
Edward G. Brust, personally led az
attack on the May Day demonstra,
ton a week ago After this May Da,
demonstration had been smashed b,
police at Lake Street and 23rd Ave
hue, A. Berman, an unemployed car
penter, was seized by police anc
Legionnaires and dragged off, witt
the kidnappers shouting, Lynch
him" He was later found lying il
a ditch near Mt. Carmel cemetery
with his skull fractured from blow
with revolver butts. He is in hos
pital.
James Cain, a railroad worker, wa
arrested at the same time and thrown
in jail along with Ed Sterovich anC
several others. Starowch was pickeC
up on the street after the demonstra
ton. All were beaten up in jail
with Brust, Chief Of Police Leese
berg. and dentist and local poll
tician named j. B. Rage, personals
present and directing the torture
Cain was beaten so terribly that boil
Jaws we're broken, and he is in ;
hospital now
Others we're arrested and beatel
later, including Tom McKenna, repre-