The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-12
Call for Protests to
La Guardia and
Organ


walks where workers were
moving hOmeward after 1000
demonstrated Thursday night,
police jailed Al and injured a
score of others who took part
in the large anti-Nazi rally in
Yorkville.
Yesterday morning, 3 additional
arrests were made when a pro-
test picket line was formed around
the Night Court at 57th st. and
Eighth Ave, tn which the ar
rested workers had been taken.
One Of the workers. severely in
iured, was taken to Bellevue Hos
pital.
The workers assembled promptly
at D. m. on Thursday at Karl
Schurz Park. 66th St. and Avenue
A, from which they we're directed
to the block between York and First
Avenues. The police and city ad-
ministration. while refusing to re-
woke their denial Of a parade-per-
NIT, had at the last minute given
the N. Y. Committee to Aid Victims
Of German Fascism,
Thousands listened to the speeches
throughout heavy shower which
drenched both speakers and audi
ence. Then, at $50 p m, with the
evening made even darker by the
heavy thunder clouds, the meeting
was disbanded and speakers in
structed the demonstrators to return
h their homes.
But even before the crowd had
had chance to leave the block on
which they had been given the
right to meet, mounted police had
already charged into them, driving
them to the sidewalks.
Then, as the demonstrators walked
in orderly manner in the middle of
the street to First Ave, shouting
slogans on their way to the sub
way and elevated stations. the po-
lice charged into them again. They
repeated this attack continually,
proving that they we're under in
structiorls to break up the anti
Man meet at any cost.
Already on Wednesday evening
the city administration had re-
vealed its pro-Nad attitude by
prohibiting an arti-Nazi street
corner meeting at s6th st. and
Third Ave-, which has been used
as an open air forum in this sec
ton for many years. Thursdays
brutal attack on the rally was but
continuation Of this policy.
Militantly shouting slogans of
Fight Against Fascisn,' Red
Front" and Down With Hitler
the massed workers swept slowly
along 86th St, booing occasionally
as Nazi hangogts were passed
Many workers in Yorkville cheered
them and joined in shouting their
slogans as they marched by. At
some points shopkeepers and others
stood in doorwayS, Sneering.
AT Second Avenue, the police, evil
IDENTIFY alarmed lest this effective
demonstration reach the sacred and
holy bourgeois provinces around
Madison and Fifth AYES, decided
to smash it here.
Mounted cops rode their horses
onto the sidewalks, head on into
the marchers, driving many up the
steps leading to the L station;
others we're driven North and South
into Second Ave.
The unarmed workers defended
themselves as best they could
against the vicious onslaught. In
very dark doorway on Second
Ave, near s6th ST., cops threw down
a worker whom they dubbed merci-
lessly.
A couple Of the police were slightly
hurt and were taken 10 Flower
Hospital for treatment. The metro
politan papers howled that, bricks
and other missiles flew thick and
fast" but your reporter, who was
on the scene, saw no missiles flung
whatsoever.
International Labor Defense
lawyers are preparing to defend the
arrested workers, and the I. L. D.
calls upon all mass organizations
to protest Immediately to Mayor
La Guardia and Police Commits 1
sioner Organ and to demand the
immediate release of all arrested
workers
In statement issued to the press
yesterday, Alfred Wagenmecht, |
executive secretary Of the National
Committee to Aid Victims of Ger
man FaScism, declared:
T.
Yorkville Thursday night was
police provocation from beginning
to end After the meeting was adj
iourned at 85th st. and York Ave. |
the 1000 audience walked down /
s5th St to First Ave. At this. point
mounted police, by riding into the
people, forced them to the side
walks.
For long time after. the police
went from corner to corner on 96th
ST.. and insulted pedestrians, stand
ing on the corners, forcing them TO
move on, although these pedestrians
had not been at the meeting, had
not seen the attack by the police
upon the Anti-Na1 crowd, and were
altogether unaware what this rough
handling was about.
The belief prevails among the
police and city officials that York
vile is part of Hit1er's Germany, a
little Nazi colony over which Hitler
and his agents rule. This is proven
by the presentations made to the
anti-Nazi committee that tried to
secure a parade permit, in that the
police commissioner claimed frankly
that Yorkville was enemy terri
tory which citizens should not go
to because they may be attacked
by the NaEis.
This attitude must be fought
and the anti-Nazi forces of New