The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-07
MILWAUKEE SOCIALIST
CHIEFS JUSTIFY ATTACK
! ON ANTI-FASCIST RALLY
Refuse Permit Arrest Demonstrators, Try tc
n Bride Defendants Who Protested
n Visit of Hitler Envoy

the Socialist City Attorney to prose-
cute? Certainly not desire to see
the workers freed. Let us quote
Quick, veteran Socialist, and assistant |
City Attorney: IF the affair was so
serious that the police had to club
the demonstrators, all of those ar
rested should have been charged in
state warrants. If some of those ar
rested are guilty of unlawful assem-
blage, all of them are. The police are
crazy if they think they can arrest
those persons on charges of disorderly
conduct"
This certainly does not express a
desire to free the liberated workers,
but rather to make the charge against
them more serious, and thus their
sentence much larger. The Socialist
City Attorney suggests to the police
on what charge to hold the arrested
workers. An unlawful assembly charge
In this city carries with it a sentence
of up to one year, and in the case
of second offenders up to three years.
Disorderly conduct is comparatively
minor charge. Thus is the true role
of these Socialist leaders exposed as
agents or advisors to the bourgeois
on how to get rid of militant work.
ers for long period Of time.
IN order to cover up the brutal ac-
1 lions of the police and at the same
time to appease the aroused workers,
Hauser, secretary to the Mayor, also
issued a statement: The mayor is
opposed to the use Of clubs by the
police where a gathering is peaceful.
BUT If THERE WAS DISORDER
WEDNESDAY THAT is A DIFF
FERENT MATTER" Even some Of
the bourgeois reporters admitted in
their writeups Of the demonstrations
that there was no need of the brutal
ity of the police. But this represen-
tative of the Milwaukee brand of So
cialism rushes to the aid of the police
by limiting that after all there was a
possibility that the demonstrators
were disorderly and therefore the po-
lice were justified. Can anything be
more vile and despicable than such
servility on the part Of a Socialist
leader"
However, still lower depths can DE
reached. While waiting to be called
to court one of the arrested workers
was called out and spoken to by a
committee of Socialists, including
Andrew Biemiller, Educational Direc-
tor of the s. P. in Milwaukee. This
committee had been elected the pre-
vious night by the County Central
Committee of the s. P. after the
workers had shown their support of
the arrested demonstration. This
committee was to investigate brutal
ity of the police. How did they go
about their duty. BY offering to
have this worker freed, by using the
prestige and influence" of the So
cialist Party to have him freed, on
one condition, The condition was
that he should rejoin the Socialist
Party, of which he had been mem
Der for over Is years, but which he
quit some time ago as result of dis
agreeing with that Party. To an
other worker, who has only recently
been expelled from the S. P, they
offered bond, with the same purpose
in mind, to draw him back into the
Socialist Party.
Here were workers facing a capital
ist court, because of militant dem
onstration against Fascism and all it
stands for with the press loudly
claiming for their conviction, and the
official committee of the 8. P. in
vestigating the brutality of the police,
confines itself to telling these work.
ers, that the s. p. would use its Elm
f1uence and prestige" with the bour-
geoisie to free them only If they
joined the s. P. Otherwise they can
go to Jail, as far as these Headers"
care.
This committee has not spoken to
any of those involved in the dem
onstration, with the exception OF
making the above mentioned PROPOSE
ton. Not once did they approach
any Of the leading participants or
even the organ of the demonstrations
They showed up only at the police
court, to which all of them seem to
have peculiarly easy access. Yet they
already announce that their report is
ready. It has not yet been published
so we cannot give the details. But
all of their actions indicate the trend
Meanwhile the aroused workers,
Socialist many Of them, are making
known their protest. Some Of the
comrades arrested are facing long
terms in Jail. The entire bourgeoisie
press is bowling for its pound of flesh.
Workers everywhere should be
and became acquainted with
the case.
Protests from every part Of the
country should be sent in to Mayor |
Daniel Hoan, Mayor OF Milwaukee.