The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-20
FOrCeL aGuardia to
OrderPrObe,PIedge
Stop Police Attacks
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for the delegation, which was
elected by 5000 workers at the
Paris Commune celebration Sunday
night, pointed out the farcical
nature of an investigation of the
police by the police. LaGuardia
then agreed to include an attorney
of the International Labor Defense
The spokesman of the delegation,
Mother Wright, Gallagher, Bruce,
Herman McKawain and Clarina
Nicholson, told the Mayor that the
workers of New York will not toler-
ate the fascist attacks by the po-
lice, and consider these attacks as
a blow deliberately aimed at the
growing unity of Negro and white
workers as expressed in the world
wide Scottsboro fight and the mass
campaign to force the Fifth Avenue
Bus Co. to employ Negro conduc-
tors and motormen.
The delegation denounced the
police attack as endangering the
lives not only of women and men
but of hundreds of little children
who joined the mass welcome to
the Scottsboro Mother after DEM
onstrating against Harlem'S fire
trap tenements which have taken
the lives Of several workers and
children in the past few weeks. La
Guardia declared he "deplored the
use of tear gas bombs" but still
refused to condemn the action of
the police, and evidently approved
of their clubbing and black jack
ing the demonstrators.
Asked for his position on the
Scottsboro frame-up, he refused to
send protest telegram to Gov.
Miller and Judge Callahan of Ala
bama, although stating that in his
opinion the case was a gross mis-
carriage of justice" thus attempt
ing to hide the deliberate frame-up
nature of the case. He refused
to suspend, pending the investiga-
ton, several policemen named by
the delegation as being the most
vicious in Saturdays attack.
The delegation consisted of %,
and represented many organiza-
tons, including the International
Labor Defense, the League of
Struggle for Negro Rights, Abys-
sinia Baptist Church, the C. w. A,
workers, the Knights of Pythias, the
Unemployed Councils, Workers Ex-
Servicemen's League, and the Paris
Commune mass meeting. LaGuardia
at first attempted to bar all but
Ave of the delegation from the
hearing, but on the insistent de-
mands of the workers finally agreed
to see the full delegation. Follow
ing the hearing, hundreds of work
ers attended demonstration in
front of the City Hall.
A protest mass meeting will be
held at st. Luke's Hall, 125 w. 130th
St., tomorrow night at which Mrs
Wright and Gallagher will speak, it
is reported
NEW YORK. = Chief Inspector
Valentine, named by LaGuardia to
head the investigation" of police
clubbing and casing of the Scots
boro protest meeting in Harlem last
Saturday, announced yesterday that
a hearing would be held this morn
ing at 10 O'Clock at the police sta
ton at 229 w. 123rd st.
Victims and witnesses of the
brutal police attack on Negro and
white workers last Saturday as well
as all sympathetic workers are
urged to pack the police station
and the entire block in a militant
demonstration against the present
attempts to whitewash the unpro-
voked police attack on workers
peacefully welcoming the Scots
boro Mother and protesting the
frame-up of the nine Scottsboro
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