The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-19
White Negro Unite i'm Militant Mass Actions in Denver Coo
Washington D. c. New York. Against nCrowism and Terror
DENVER POLICE
ATTACK ANTI-JIM
CROW FIGHT
Beat Young Workers;
Arrest SO; Big
Protest Tonight

DENVER, Colo, Aug. 18.-Thirty-
six white and Negro workers, mostly
youth, were arrested here yesterday
after terrific struggle initiated by
the Young Communist League against
jim-crow practices in Denver's bath
ing parks.
AS part of the special fight for Ne
gro rights, three hundred workers I'M
der the leadership of the Young Com
munist League marched in body to
Washington Park to demand the right
of Negro workers to battle in any
part of the park without molestation.
Negro and White Defy Cop Edict
Fifty police, under the personal
command of the Commissioner of
Safety, Milliken and Chief of Police
Clark, refused to allow the Negro
workers to battle. The Negro and
white workers defied the police edict.
The struggle commenced only after
all the workers had brushed past the
police and had bathed and were on
the point Of leaving the park. The
police then attacked the leaders of
the demonstration in an attempt to
incite the large crowd of petty bour-
geois shop-keepers and undeveloped
workers present Throughout the
demonstration this crowd remained
passive with some among them show
ing sympathy In spite of the police
attempts to create proVocationS.
Young Communist Beaten
Jay Anton, district organizer of the
League, was brutally beaten up by
score of police who jumped him
all at once.
The arrested workers include Pat
Toohey, district organizer of the Com
munist Party, Nell Anyon, district or
ganizer of the Pioneers; Frank Smith,
secretary of the Unemployed Council;
Carr, district secretry of the Inter
national Labor Defense.
Two-thirds of the arrested workers
are Negroes, against whom the police
as usual especially directed their at
tacks Most Of the white workers
arrested were seized in the act of de-
Tending their Negro comrades.
Mayor In Demagogic statement
In an attempt to hide the fact that
the city administration and its police
in their onslaught on the workers
were openly defending Jim CrowiSm
and, other forms of national oppres-
sion of the Negro masses, the mayor
of Denver has issued demagogic
statement attacking the demonstra-
ton "as Communist inspired" Sim
liar statements have been issued by
Commissioner Milliken and Chief OF
Police Clark. In his statement MILL
ken asserts he will give no quarters
to Communists.
The Negro district Is heavily pa
trolled by police today In fear of
angry retaliation by the workers to
police brutality.
The local bourgeois papers have
given the demonstration wide pub
licity, attempting to characterize it
as race riot" in order to hide its
working class character as a united
fighting front of the Negro and white
workers against their common en-
envy.
Demonstrate Friday
A huge protest demonstration
against the police attack and against
the jim-crowing of Negro workers in
the bathing parks is being organized
for this Friday evening The Com
munist Party and the Young Commu-
mist League have issued a joint state
ment denouncing the mayor, the
commissioner and chief of police for
their attack on the anti-Jim Crow
ism demonstration and placing full
responsibility for the police riot on
the police officials who provoked and
attacked the demonstrators.
The SO arrested workers are to come
up for trial tomorrow before the no.
torious anti-working class judge,
Pickens. The workers of Denver are
planning to pack the court in a mil
liant demonstration for the uncondi-
tional release Of their comrades.