The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-19
5000 Battle Cops
At Meet for Nine
SCOttSbOrO Boys
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Scottsboro tour with the late J
Louis Engdahl, when they were
bounded by the European police, at
the instigation of the U. S. State
Department, and several times
thrown in Jail
81 have faced the bloody police
of Germany, Austria and other
European countries, with their gas
bombs and clubs, in my fight for
the lives of my boys and the other
ScOttsboro boys and I will stay
right here and fight to the very
end" she fearIessly hurled her
challenge into the teeth of the
police.
Shortly after Mrs. Wright finished
speaking, and Sam Stein, field or
ganizer of the International Labor
Defense, mounted the. speakers
stand, the police resumed their Of
fensive, driving heavy cadillac car
directly into the crowd in an at
tempt to overturn the speakers
platform upon Mrs. Wright, who
was standing nearby.
Police Drive Car Onto Thlckly
Crowded Sidewalks
The car was driven right up onto
the thickly crowded Sidewalk. The
workers militantly defended them
selves, while a group of white and
Negro workers quickly surrounded
Mrs. Wright to protect her from the
police attacks. Workers in apat-
ment house windows jeered the
police and joined the defense, hurl-
ing flower pots, grape fruits and
other missiles upon the heads of the
police.
Police cars and motorcycle cops
dashed recklessly into the crowd of
women, children and men, hurting
gas bombs and welding their clubs
and blackjackS with sadistic bru-
tally. The officer in charge, re-
minded by a worker of Mayor La
Guardia promised to discontinue
attacks on workers demonstrations
answered TO he'll with that. We
have our orders"
Fight Rages Over Two Hours, Whole
Neighborhoed Involved.
The fight ragged f1ercely for over
two hours, and spread from 126th
Street to 131st Street and Lenox
Avenue, as the whole neighborhood
became involved in the defense of
the Scottsboro Mother and the pro-
test demonstration. Workers rushed
from apartment buildings and side
streets to defend the demonstration
against the hideous attempts of the
white ruling class of Alabama and
the whole country to burn the
Scottsboro boys in the electric chair,
despite the worldwide exposure of
the brazen rape" frame-up. Scores
Of police thugs were sent to the
hospital by the Infatuated workers.
In savage retaliation, the police in
vaded the headquarters of the Har-
lem section of the LID. wrecking
the furniture and gsssing the prem
ises.
Workers reported that the follow
ing officers were especially vicious.
No. 1885, a Negro cop who bran
dished his gun and threatened to
shoot into the group around Mother
Wright, No. 1924, No. 1902. No.
17073 and 1882 were among those
who beat up the four arrested work
ers in the police station. No. 17073
told William Mayors, one Of the
three arrested colored workers that
AL niggers should be lynched. The
Scottsboro boys have been held too
long. They should have been lynched
long ago" No. 1892 told Mayors
not to show his face on Lenox
Avenue again if he valued his life.
Hoffman. white worker, was
rescued from the police by group
Of workers and taken to house on
127th St, where he was examined
by DR.. Reuben Young, who declared
he had a fractured rib and prob
ably an injury to his spine.
Louise Lawrence, young Negro
girl who went to the rescue of a
Negro woman knocked down by the
police, was jumped on by six cops
and savagely beaten up. One
punched her in the mouth knock
ing out several of her teeth. She,
in turn, was rescued by a white
woman worker.
Among the victims Of the I'M
bridled police brutality were several
hundred Harlem children who, I'M
der the League of Struggle for Ne
gro Rights, had demonstrated earlier
in the day against the f1re-trap
tenements, which recently caused
the death Of several Negro adults
and children, trapped by fires. The
children had marched from fire.
Quilted tenements to the station to
greet Mother Wright and back to
126th Street and Lenox Avenue
where the f1ercest police attack oc-
CURED, with gas bombs, clubs and
cars driven into the mass of demon
strators.
Harlem was seething with angry
excitement yesterday and from
many workers proposals were made
for a city-wide march to City Hall
to protest the police attack and de-
mand that Mayor La Guardia keep
ais promise that no demonstrations
would be attacked by his police.
The Harlem Section Of the Com
munist Party answered the police
attack by calling another Scottsboro
demonstration for next Saturday,
urging all workers and their Or
throughout the city to
ally to the defense of the Negro
masses and the Scottsboro boys. and
o defend the right of workers to