The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-19
THE MURDEROUS ATTACK ON THE
CHICAGO ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATION,

SONS WERE SEVERELY BEATEN SHORTLY AFTER.
NOON TODAY WHEN POLICE CHARGED SEVERAL
HUNDRED COMMUNISTS WHO WERE STAGING
PROTEST MEETING IN FRONT OF THE WRlGLEY
BUILDING ON NORTH MICHIGAN AVE.
SUDDENLY POLICE OFFICERS GAVE A SIGNAL
AND THE OFFICERS ON FOOT BEGAN SHOUTING
ORDERS FOR THE CROWD TO MOVE ON. COMMU-
NISTS WERE STUBBORN AND SEVERAL ATTEMPT
ED TO WREST CLUBS FROM THE HANDS OF THE
POLICE. THIS ACTION WAS THE SIGNAL FOR
SAVAGE ATTACK.
"FROM OHIO ST. CAME THE MOUNTED POLICE.
THEY RODE FULL SPEED UP THE SIDEWALK
HURLING THEIR MOUNTS INTO THE THICK OF THE
CROWD THEY CLUBBED LEFT AND RIGHT WITH
ALL THEIR STRENGTH WHILE THE HORSES TRAM
Piled THE FLEEING DEMONSTRATORS UNDER
FOOT.
"THE POLICEMEN ON FOOT WE'RE ALSO IN THE
MIDST OF THE STRUGGLING THRONG, LAYING
LEFT AND RIGHT WITH THEIR CLUBS. SEVERAL
POLICEMEN AFTERWARD CHARGED THE REDS
HAD ARMED THEMSELVES WITH SHORT CLUBS
WHICH HAD SPIKES DESIGNED TO TEAR THE
FLESH NONE WAS SEEN BY REPORTERS. AS THE
SIDEWALK CLEARED, SEVERAL ALLEGED COM
MUNISTS WE'RE LYING ON THE SIDEWALK. THE
WOUNDED COMMUNISTS WERE LEFT WHERE THEY
FELL UNDER GUARD, WHILE THE POLICE COM
PLETED THE ROUT OF THE REDS"
This description by the capitalist newspaper reporter is
sufficient to convince anybody of the murerous attack of the
Cermak police against the workers.
Nevertheless Cermas police and the capitalist press
attempting to spread sanderou stories that workers opened
the attack and shot at the police
From the description given above of the workers patc
pang in the demonstration it clear that the police opened
the attack and the police fired the shots.
On the previous day. Friday March H. the Cermak
police fired at 1000 workers at Humboldt Park who demon
srated against box relief demanding adequate cash relief
Unemployment Insurance at the expense the bosses and
the government.
MASSES AGAINST WAR
The Chicago antwar demonstration showed very clearly
that of workers against and ready to defend
the Soviet Union Chinese and Soviet China and fight
against robber in China large percentage of the work
demonstrating unemployed workers. which indicates
that unemployed workers clearly understand that will not
bring prosperity that the capitalist will slaughter millions
of workers for the profits of the bosses and will drive
of workers into further misery starvation and slavery.
The slaughter of the workers at the Ford River Rouge
Plant at Dearborn Mich, who demanded jobs relief the
Chicago anwar demonstration indication of the grow
ing resentment against capitalist exploitation and the
Hoover program of and hunger.
THE TASKS.
The task of worker and especially the Communists
and the Communist Party throughout the country to mobilize
masses around immediate demands in shops, unemployed
workers in struggle for these demands uniting with the strug
gle against war; leading toward Anti-War Week. March 30
April g. and AntWar Day, April g. the fifteenth anniversary
Of the entrance of the United States into the World War
The Communist Party of this country is already proving
to the American working class and to the international Pro-
letariat its ability and determination to carry the struggle
to stop the plans of the warmonger to defend the Chinese
people and the Soviet Unio~