The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-24
All We're B aten and
Choked by the
Police
BY EDWARD NEwHoUsE

cEVEN out of ten unemployed
y workers we're found guilty on
October 16, of unlawful assembly
before New Yorks Welfare Depart
ment on Lafayette Street. The sen
fences to be pronounced October
3Oth will have been based on one
of the most blatant judicial farces
ever enacted off the stage.
The ten defendants had been ar
rested in the course of an unpro-
Voked attack by police on an orderly
picketline. The grand jury had re-
fused to indict them for lack of
evidence but the District Attorneys
office had them brought before
Special Sessions for another hear
ing. Three judges, Solomon, Wal
ling and McInerney, set mutely
through the testimony of seven
patrolmen and police inspector
and shot questions at over twenty
witnesses for the defense.
All of the defendants had been
beaten on May 26th. The crime of
three of them consisted in aiding
Mike POLISH to his feet. POLISH had
been lying on the sidewalk, uncon-
sciouS. A billy had opened a cash
on his head and pool of blood was
forming around it. Cecil Alexander
was arrested for asking cop not
to beat his mother. Joseph Schind-
Ter, one Of the three defendants
who were acquitted, has sworn to
the following statement:
Beaten and Choked by Police
After I was arrested, was taken
to the rear of so Lafayette Street.
At that time there were four other
workers there under arrest. Shortly
after, the police brought in the
prisoner whom I later knew as Core
Daniels (also one of the defend
ants. He was bleeding from the
head.
"All Of us were beaten and
kicked by the cops. Carlson, who
was bleeding from the head and
mouth, they tried to put head first
into an ash-can. When we pro-
tested we were beaten and choked
by the police. We all asked for
medical attention which was denied
us.
After we we're booked we were
taken upstairs singly. While was
upstairs, Daniels was brought in.
:. They grabbed him by the hair
and hit him with clenchcd fists.
While he was lying PROSTATE on the
floor, the police and detectives
kicked him about the body. They
pulled hair from his head. One
cop splitting in his face. said, I don't
blame Hitler for his treatment Of
the Reds. would like to see this
country like Hitler's.'
Made Him Kiss Cops Feet
They grabbed him by the head
and forced his battered, bleeding
mouth to the feet Of q cop. making
him kiss the cops feet. The COP
lunged kick at his mouth.
Daniels, mild-mannered Latin,
said, I do not mind kissing his feet.
He is human being. love all
people
They then made him wash the
blood from his hands in prepara-
ton for nger-printing him. While
forcing him to dry his hands on his
own clothing, they kicked him.
After fingerprinting, he was
brought downstairs for a second
medical attention, and we were
brought to police headquarters and
placed in a CELL
Daniels and I were placed in
the same cell. I stayed up all night,
treating him. There was no bedding
and when asked the keeper for
a blanket, he snarled at me. Let
him die I begged for water and a
doctor for him, and the keeper an
sWered, Let the red son of a bitch
die" O-'
n'AMICIS, SCHNEIDER. Alexander
- and POLISH sat among the ten
accused and listened to Insuector
Wall's righteous and vague charges
wall is fine figure of a man.
built along the lines of the late