The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-22
CLUBS, NOT BREAD
Is CITY'S REPLY

trade unions and mass organizations,
elected by thousands Of workers.
There we're several delegates from
the Irish Workers Club, representing
thousands of Irish workers in Greater
New York
Assembling at Union Square at
l O'Clock, the demonstrators marched,
with placards and banners ana
shouting militant slogans. 10000
strong to City Hall and for an hour
encircled the building.
The first police charge came when
the delegation gathered at the en-
france of City Hall and demanded OF
Police Inspector McAulifffe, that
chey be permitted to enter and pre-
sent their demands to Mayor Walker.
twenty cossacks, mounted on charg-
ing horses, plunged into the crowd,
swinging clubs and kicking men, wo-
men and children, while the horses
trampled them in the street. One
police thug kicked a woman in the
stomach and, as she doubled up from
pain, he kicked her again. This so
lnfuriated the workers that they
seized the cop and gave him a good
beating.
Workers Resist Attacks
Not daunted by the savagery of
The attack and angered at the ter
rible brutality which left scores
severely injured the workers re-
Iormed their lines and four times
beat back the police attacks and each
lime, as they surged forward to the
counter-attack, shouting defiant slo-
CANS, additional numbers Of the police
suffered injuries.
Police Commissioner Mulrooney,
himself, personally directed the as
sault upon the lines of the workers,
while Walker remained safety be-
hind the walls of City Hall, while
below in the basement police were
ferociously beating demonstrators
they had dragged down the steps.
George E. Powers, one of the lead
ers of the Unemployed Councils, was
terribly beaten up by a large group
of police, and with blood streaming
from his face and head and his
clothes saturated, was thrown into a
patrol wagon and rushed to q Jail
cell.
The fierce fighting continued for
an hour anda half when, at a signal
from the steering committee, the
demonstrators, 10000 strong, REIN
forced by many of the $4,000 work
ers that watched the fighting,
marched to Union Square again.
Hold City Streets
AS the crowd surged forward, in
marching formation, attempts were
made to stop them but the streets
were held against every attack.
Through the crowded downtown sec
ton the demonstration passed, the
workers continuing to shout slogans
and display their placards and ban
ners. AS the Edison Construction job
was reached the red flags we're taken
by the workers and carried along in
the march. Through the streets,
particularly the working class sec
tons, the marchers shouted many
slogans such as mo work, no rent"
open the Relief Bureaus" Jimmy
Walker Wants Beer; we want bread"
I'VE Refuse to Starve.'' war funds
for the Unemployed" Flight against
War"
Smash Through Auto Barriers.
.. AT Delaney and Forsyth Streets,
a cop tried to stop the march by
signalling automobile and truck
drivers to go through the lines.
Instead of being dispersed by such
methods the workers, who had
battled the police for hours" assailed
the drivers, smashing the window
glass in private cars, hurting mis-
se1es through the windshields OF
trucks
Held Union Suare Meet
BY the time Union Square was
reached the cops were convinced that
they dare not try further to stop the
demonstration and mighty protest
meeting was held.
The masses of workers app1auded
the call of the speakers for the I'm
employed Councils, the Trade Union
Unity League, and the Communist
Party to continue the fight against
the BOSSES hunger and war program,
and to especially mobilize on May
Day and fight for unemployed de-
mands and against the imperialist
war conspiracies, in defense of the
Chinese people who are being slaugh-
tered by Japanse imperialism and in
defense of the Soviet Union.
The workers were called upon to
mass at Union Square on May Day,
100000 strong, and march to Rut-
gers Suare, in the greatese demon
stration yet held.
Many injured workers we're taken
care of b. the Workers International
Relief. Some Of them are seriously
injured
Besides the cop who kicked the
woman worker in the stomach,
number Of others are recovering from
their INJURIES i'm hosnita1s