The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-11

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Wedding, in Berlin, demonstrate MAY
Inc Socialist Police Chief, ZOergiebel
lacked by the police.
The police in the Pankstrasse
passed over to the attack.
The firing ON the windows and the
LEY was intensified. Under its cover
he police stormed forward. Helmets
md nickel buttons glittered from the
entrance Of the alley. They rushed
.owards the barricades, firing cease
lessly. From the other side the police
who could not get clear view of the
situation fired across the barricade
at their own colleagues. Stones flew
out Of the dark windows. Shouting
and shooting the police jumped on to
the barricade fully prepared for a
hand to-hand struggle. The barricade
waS-empty
Cursed swinel"
A stone tore up the face OF an
East Prussian peasant boy. Damned
ours" he wiped the blood from his
face. The locks of the rifles clanked
continuously. Go on banging at that
invisible red monster! If only one
had an aim
The narrow black point Of an Of
ficer'S boot turned the man over who
was lying q motionless lump on the
ground between the beams. The bel
~ was black and moist like the dark
spot on the asphalt.
From the passage next to the Red
Nightingale" revolver fire flared up.
Butt ends of rifles crashed against
the blinds OF the pub.
Forward" the officer shouted d.
they're inside there!'
THROUGH THE DOOR
The door to the Red Nightingale"
crashed to pieces. The police knew
that here was the communist strong
hold of the Koslin quarter.
Hands up-get out. all of your
The majors torch swept the dark
room. 1t was-empty!
Bloody gangr" Someone turned
the electric light. Tack went the
switch, but remained dark. Torches
came out. Chairs and tables were
overturned. On the wall was news
paper page headed: Fighting May
Day, 1929" A policeman cursed and
tore down the front page Of the
"Rote Fahne" They found no one.
Black and uneanny the passage
leading to the hall in the back opened
before them. The new men did not
know the interior of the pub. The ma
jor discovered the passage and storm
ed through it with raised revolver. A
kick opened the door at the end.
There was a light behind. The room
seemed empty. But in one corner two
youngsters were sitting and playing
cards!
The glass door leading to the yard
stood open. Their quarry had va
nished! Again disappearing. silently
and without trace, diving into I'M
known hiding places swallowed up by
the darkness Of the passages and
yards. 49,.
A few empty cartridges was all they
found. AS for the two youths who had
played cards nothing in their
pockets but few buttons, piece Of
string, cigarettes and a dirty hand
kerchief. No evidence of any kind, no
membership cards of the "Rote Front
kampferbund" (the Red Front Fight
ers' League) or the Young Comnun-
Isl Lsague-nothing but two young,
unmoved faces suffering with tightly
closed lips the terrible manhandling
Of the police
No one dare enter the dark and
silent yard :.
Outside the Red Nightingale" the
policemen tore down the barricades
in the glare Of a searchlight and I'M
der the cover Of a special detachment
which, stationed on both sides of the
street, fired uninterruptedly into the
windows. The black holes in the grey
walls were the countless sharp and
fearful eyes Of the monster-the red
alley! Still living and breathing, in
accessible, like some great monster
of old, invincible, though bleeding
from hundred wounds. The heart,
the red heart of Wedding-ham
mered on, stronger and wilder than
The barking rifles of the police.
When the searchers pulled away a
sust-bin a small, dirty hand fell to