The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-22
c Communist Rally On
 Mill st. Tame Affair
Youngsters Play Football as Speakers Crate From
 Soap Box Borgnis on Program

A communist rally that had most of the earmarks of a tea party was enacted at the corner of Mill and East Dover streets at 4 o'clock yes- terday afternoon, providing speech es that apparently nobody paid any serious attention to but which gave diversion to some 10 or 20 pollce- men, several hundred schoolboys and schoolgirls, a few workers on their way home to supper and bored newspapermen. One inter- esting fact was that the police men far outnumbered the com munists and furnished most of the audience until the school kids, smelling excitement. arrived on the
 The rally, somebody said, had something to do with local girls working in New Haven. In fact, the communists covered the city yesterday with blazing circulars in which the girls were called very unpleasant names. It seems that these girls were to arrive home from work at New Haven by bus between and o'clock and the rally was held, either. to greet them or call them a few more names.
 Soapbox Orator
 Anyway, a little after 4 o'clock. a short man with glasses, neatly
 dressed, got up on a soapbox, In somebody's side yard, and began to make a speech. As he started a cordon of bluecoats drew around, and a tally of the section showed that on Mill street, Liberty street and Dover street, there were a half dozen police cars, also four sergeants, six or eight motor pa- trolmen, several more street patrol- men, and five or six detectives. The man, who somebody called Charles Campbell, spoke very loud- Iy and with very blazing gestures |Everyone in the crowd seemed to think he looked very imposing there on the soapbox, but no one
 The policemen didn't say any thing. They just walked around and listened, spending most of their time directing traffic and chasing youngsters off the road. Kids Disinterested
 Mir Campbell began talking about ships, not for any apparent reason. Then he told his listeners still mainly boys and girls, that only rich people were on vessels like the Morro Castle and could afford vacations to Cuba. Nobody said anything. What he wanted to say, he did say, was that when America was communistic they wouldn't burn the boats. Nobody had mentioned anything about burning boats, as far as could be learned. Instead, he went on, all of you workers (pointing at the crowd, wherein there were prob ably a dozen working peopls) can go on boat trips. This seemed promising to some of the third and fourth grade youngsters. but when MT Campbell began talking about corporations then they lost
 In back of MT Campbell stood a
 girl, hatless and her hair blowing about, displaying copies of com
 munist papers. If she was trying
 to sell them, she was unsuccessful;
 if she was trying to have people
 read them, she was still unsuccess-
 full. MT Campbell was orating
 away, when some kids across the
 street decided to play football in a side yard. They did, much to their own delight, and kicked the pig. skin around all during the rest or MT Campbelps speech.
 Many Distractions
 People sitting on nearby veran- das and leaning from second ana
 third story windows had lost in- terest by this time, and they be- gan to read the evening paper and
 do their knitting.
 Then. declared the speaker:
 "Somebody asks me Why the (the policemen blushed )-dont you get out of this country?"