The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-09
MANY BEATEN
SPOI ICEMEN
GUARD ROADS
$4,000 Attend Funeral
Despite Terrific
Terror
=, By HARRY GAINES.
Especial to the Daily Worler.)

AMBRIDGE, Pa, Oct. s. =
Men and women were brutally
beaten and threatened with
death, to prevent them from
entering Ambridge today to
participate in the funeral OF
Adam Petrusaki, murdered strike
syrnpathizer. Hundreds of deputies,
armed with, machine guns, rifles,
tear gas, guns, revolvers and clubs,
guarded every entrance and byway
leading into Ambridge. Fire engines
and trucks blocked all approaches to
the city in an effort to keep thou
sands Of steel and coal workers from
participating in the parade. Street
cars were stopped from entering AM
bridge.
Despite the vicious terror and at
tacks on visiting workers, and de-
spite the fact that the streets were
swarming with gunner, 10000 to 5000
people massed at Petrusaki's home to
participate in the funeral; protested
against the vicious murder and Or
ganized to go back on the picket
lines. When worker got up to speak
before. the funeral cortege started, he
was beaten and arrested Twenty
two men and women were beaten and
showed into Jail.
Mother Bloor and Pat Cush, chair
man Of the Steel and Metal Workers
Union, despite the heavy mobiliza-
ton of gunner, succeeded in enter
ing Ambridge and were scheduled to
speak. Whether they were arrested
could not be learned.
Only few workers were able to
get by the heavy armed Gordon of
the steel trust gunner and Joined
with the thousands of workers of the
City Of Anbridge despite the gum
men, and marched as near as they
could to the funeral procession on to
the cemetery, where they buried the
victim Of the Steel Trusts fascist on
slaught on the picket line Thursday
afternoon.
Attack Truck
On the road from Pittsburgh, one
truck was savagely attacked by an
assorted collection of gunner, COM
prising company guards, local police,
state troopers, deputy sheriffs and
American Legion members.
Further along the gunner stalled
a truck in the middle of the road
and called out the fire engines. To
avert bloody battle, and in the face
Of the threats Of the gunner to
open fire with machine guns, the
cavalcade of strikers turned back to
Pittsburgh.
Martial Law Spreads
we managed to get into Am
bridge" said Joseph Wrozlak, a
worker who was beaten up severely,
and the Arhbridge police rushed up
to us and said:
III you stop here we will kill you
on the spot; get the hell out of here
View went four miles out of AM
bridge. near Sewickly, with our truck,
and bunch of deputies armed with
clubs and machine guns jumped out
Of bushes and began beating us Sc
verely. I was beaten over the head
and arm"
Mrs. Halfridge, who was In the
group, just recovering from an OPP
eration. was threatened and hit over
the arm with a. club.
Mary Kluko and her husband were
beaten mercilessly. Dozens were
beaten up ~ the bushes and dubbed.
Karp Kurson, another worker, was
severely beaten.
In Leetsdale, the whole population
synpathized with the workers who
were beaten up and driven away
from Ambridge.
TITS hell Of a situation" they
muttered, when they don't allow
workers to attend funeral Of =
murdered striker"