The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-02
LaGuardia Secretly Plans Terror
Against Workers Of New York City
Continued from Page y

(C0ntlHNeG from rage L
on in concealed fashion since it
assumed Office six months ago.
On Saturday the workers were
dubbed and blackjacked by La
Cuardia's cops. Scores were in
iured Thirteen were arrested. Po-
lice carried guns in their hands,
some Of them even carried rifles.
Felonious assault was the charge
made against eleven Of those
arrested "a charge under which
they may be framed into three to
ten years in jail
The next dsy-Sundey, May a.
when hundreds Of workers crowded
the courtroom where their COM
rades we're being tried, the Judge
ordered the room cleared when they
booed his announcement of the
bail--s1 500 for each defendant. AS
the workers, protesting. filed out of
the room and down the steps into
the street, they we're attacked by
scores of police and detectives who
appeared, by pre-arranged signal
from adjoining rooms. Their attack
on two white collar workers, Mr..
and Mrs. James Lechay, was so des-
picable and sadistic, so inhunan,
that two metropolitan press report
ers tried to object, to stop it. They
were punched in the face for their
trouble.
But this terror, this open and
bloody fascist brutality, did not be i.
gin last SATURDAY. That date
marked the elimination of one stage
Of working class terror as It
passed into new and more virulent
phase. On this day it dropped all
pretenss to liberalism" to prog
ressivisnn, to Mayor La Guardia 3
hypocritical ct hurts me more than
it hurts you attitude.
The administration came out into
the open. It no longer found It
necessary to make allowances" for
the police-to indulge in mild cen
sure.
The city government came OUT
openly Tuesdays New York Times
carried the headline:
o'RYAN WARNS REDS RIOT
ING MUST STOP.
Says Police Will Use Force if
Necessary to Protect City from
Foreign Intrigue
DEFENDS TACTICS OF MEN
After Conference With Mayor
and Hodson. He Appeals to Public
for Cooperation.
The story which followed stated
among other things, the following
General Organ. when inter
viewed in police headquarters.
gave out statement in which he
announced that the police must
maintain order in this city and
they are obligated to employ all
force necessary in doing So
The same story carried the news
that LaGuardia had conferred with
Police Commissioner Organ about
troubles that had been brought
about recently by radicals who de-
mand more jobs for the unem-
ployed.' (Our emphasis-EdD
On the very same day (Tuesday)
appeared an open, lynch incitinE
editorial in the New York Herald
Tribune, under the title yellow
Reds
Not content with spreading It's
Shiny SANDER upon the iobless
workers who admirably defended
themselves against police attacks
the Tribune proceeds in its attempts
to arouse lynch hysteria and whir
up sentiment for another attack OF
the coming unemployment demon
stration by linking up the assault
upon workers with the killing of g
policeman a few weeks ago by those
best agents of the police-organizec
gangsters.
Yellow Capitalist journalism
In this foul manner It actually
puts on the same plane the strug-
giles of hungry and homeless work
ers for food and shelter and the
activities of organized gsngsterdon
tWhose intimate connections with
New York's politicians and police is
too well known to need restatenent
All that can be said of these
cowardly rats can be said Of these
yellow Reds-and more" the Trib.
une says, chsracterizing the polict
attack as premeditated by tn,
"reds!"
The editorial ends by calling upor
the police to again attack workers
demonstrations by stating, THE au.
thorities are here dealing not witt
social doctrines but with ORGANIZED
crime for which it would be a cost,
folly to make any more allowances