The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-03
Peekskill Police Prepare
To Attack Workers
on Arrival
BULLETIN

PEEKSKILL, N. Y, Nov. a.
Police Commissioner Shay today
declared tina the returning
marchers would not be permitted
to hold any Of their scheduled
meetings here today. They will
be given the same treatment thev
got in Albany" he said. "We1I
meet them with police clubs. If
any blood is shed, the blame will
be on the marcners."
The Hunger Marchers are
scheduled to appear at mass
meetings in Peekskill tomorrow
night at 6 o'clock.
ALBANY, N. Y. Nov. 2.-Flanked
by a heavily-armed police guard,
with every available policeman
lining the route of march, 300 State
Hunger Marchers paradsd to the
State Capitol building late today
demanding immediate appropria-
ton OF Winter relief.
Many Of the heroic Ii tie army
still bore marks of the savage police
attacks, when they were ambushed
at the Dunn Memorial Bridge on
Tuesday night.
Police Chief Smurl had ordered
all available policemen to line the
route of march. The heavily armed
police patrolled the headquarters
which the unemployed had set up
in down own office building.
State troopers with full equipment
patrolled the capitol area and
swarmed over the capitol grounds.
Albany Workers Cheer Marchers
The marchers paraded four
abreast through streets lined with
cheering workers. along South Pearl
Street, and up State Street to the
Capitol led by l. Amter, Commu-
mist candidate for Governor, a Ne
gro worker and a woman. Assem-
bled at the Capitol steps were a
heavy guard Of safe troopers. De-
spite this proyocation, several thou
sand workers crowded the Capitol
lawn to greet the marchers. With
the marchers standing on the steps.
the workers joined in singing "Soli-
darity." The marchers did not inn
mediately enter the Capitol, but
stood confronting the troopers, who
carried extra large night sticks.
The delegation which presented
the petitions to the Governors
Secretary because of Lehman's re-
fusal to come to Albany, was headed
by Richard Sullivan, I. Amter, Ma
tional Secretary of the Unemploy-
ment Councils, and Communist cam
didate for Governor Of New York
State; Vance Russel, leading rank
and file member of the Amer lean
Federation of Labor; Vladimir
1saacs, from Seneca Falls, and Rose
Belkowitz.
Sullivan Slugged
Richard Sullivan. secretary of the
United Action Conference on Work,
Relief and Unemployment and
/ leader of the New York contingent
of the State Hunger March and a
Negro worker were jailed and slug
ged by police last night. Sullivan
was today released in the custody
of his lawyer, Joseph Tauber, Of
the International Labor Defense.
The Negro worker was slugged and
released.
At the court room today witnesses
and defendants testified to the
brutal beatings which the marchers
received at the hands of Police
Chief Smurl's blue-coated gangs.
Workers were forced r. run a
gauntlet of police clu,,s. Others were
stripped naked and fiayed on the
back. Negro workers, who COM
/ prised large part of the delega-
ton to Albany, were accorded the
most brutal treatment. Collection
boxes which the marchers carried
we're rifled by Albany's blue-coated
thugs. Still LISTING for the blood Of
the marchers, whom they smbushed
on the Dunn Memorial Bridge
Tuesday night, the police slugged
The workers until Their h'ood- 7oaked
bandages dripped fresh blood
A delegation went to Mayor
4 Thacher with the de~'~~| tf'-- ''v's
co not reconvene until Sullivan
4 comes back to lead the Convention
The delegation headed by Sam
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