The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-02


At the very moment the police
men fired at the window Kurt sprang
back to the stairs. The quick warn
ing from above had probably saved
his life. On the first landing he
was drawn into a flat and hidden.
He could hear the policemen rush
past the closed door and up the
stairs. In an attic they tore the
washing from the hands Of terror
stricken washerwoman and even out
of the steaming boilers, to look for
him there.
Anna had managed to hide herself
in passage when she heard the
shots from the house on the other
si1e which was shelte-ing Kurt.
DO you want to be shot dead,
too a worker shouIed at her as he
he'd her back from the open door.
Let me go, Max" she said, cur
lousy low, hoarse voice. DO you
hsar, Max-lat me go." She tried in
vain to bend aside the fingers round
her arm. New shots rang out. Anna
looked at the worker for moment,
then she beat his face twice in sue
cession with her free hand. He fell
back to the wall, and tearing open
the door she rushed out. At the cor
ner the flag bearer and another young
worker were being arrested and
thrown on the police lorry. The flag
was in a thousand shredS.
Four police vans came rushing
down the Wiesenstrasse from the
while they were still running the
corner was cleared with pistols and
batons.
WITHOUT KURT!
Anna saw how the policemen were
coming out of number 6, again-with-
cut kurt! A paralyzing thought
struck her. Where was he? Why had
they not taken him with them like
the flag bearer just now? With an
enorJ which almost overpowered her,
she forced an image out Of her mind
she had seen him lying in the yard,
face turned downWardS. e.
People rushing past her carried her
with them.
Down with the starva-
ton government"
Policemen ran after them with
dram clubs. Someone fell to the
ground. After a terrific club blow
the raised head fell with a hollow
sound back on the pavement. There
he remained lying,
Three cheers for the Communist
Partyl"
rTr,a-. ~1,o,,tod tISo NH Ia o11eIy
shouted, and Anna with the others.
"Hurrah =. hurTah =. . hurrah!"
When the police had driven them
from one side, they shouted on the
other. They shouted from the win
dows over the policemen's heads. A
red nag was shot down from the sec
ond floor; woman snatched it up
from the pavement.
Peng peng peng.
The round bullet holes on the grey
house fronts were like white peck
marks.
The loud echo of the shots alarmed
the workers of the surrounding dis
trict. More and more reinforcements
came into the alley. Those coming
from town reported that the police
were attacking everywhere with the
utmost brutality. On the Hackesche
Market they had fired into the dem
onstration of the tobacco workers.
Three workers dropped-one was
dead. In Kliens halls on the HaSen-
heide they had fired into the meet
ing Of the plumbers. A woman told
how a demonstration had been
broken up with bloodhounds only ten
minutes away, in the Badstrasse 1t
was said that armored cars had been
used in Neukolln. Trans had been
upset by the workers. People who
came from the indoor meetings Of
the trade unions in which not a
word of protest had been heard told
how they had been met at the very
entrances Of the halls by policemen
who batoned them Anyone wearing
a red carnation was target for the
police In the Kleine Tergarten in
Moabit they arrested forty carpen-
teys in one swoop and rushed them
off in cars to the police presidium,
although they had participated in a,
meeting sanctioned by the police.
KNOCKED SENSELESS
Police lorry after police lorry rolled
into the Koslin quarter. Wherever
they jumped off and batoned the
workers, the masses closed behind
them again as soon as they went on.
On the Nettelbeckplatz a worker who
was supposed to have shouted some
thing was arrested AS the police
car drove off with him. he clenched
his fist surrounded as he was by the
police and shouted TO the workers
on the street: Red Front" He was
not silenced till, as the car rushed
away, they knocked him senseless.
Near Wedding Station the police
turned on hoses and attempted TO
disperse the workers with water
amidst a pandemonium of whistling,
booing and hooking laughter. The
police vans which dashed through the
streets. were greeted with piercing
boos by the excited masses. Ever
new demonstrations formed them
selves which were dispersed ~fter
marching a few hundred yards, only
to be reformed afresh. The workers
had learned to evade the rushing po-
lice and to expose themselves as little
as possible
The following happened about
noon
Until the police had cleared the
entrance TO the Reinickendorfer-
5trasGe on the Nettelbeckplatz, the
street was full of policemen with
drawn revolvers. In the center of
the empty road a trembling young
girl who had Just come cut of a shop
was attempting to get out OF the