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charged the meeting and tried to
dispense the students.
Norman Tallentire, secretary of
the American League, addressed the
students for several minutes, while
Gottschall confronted him and tried
to keep him from speaking.
Thousands Strike in Brooklyn
In Brooklyn College $500 out Of
the 5000 students who attend
marched out of the various divi-
sions of the school in body
promptly at II o'clock and united
with 800 students from Long Island
University and $50 from Seth Low
Junior College. They marched to
LI.U. where a meeting was held
for an hour guarded by 400 police.
The strike led by the N.S,L. and the
LID. received the full support Of
the Student Council and faculty.
Over thousand students gath
cred in the park at the washington
Square branch of New York Uni
versity and heard Robert Gessner
and several other instructors and
students speak against war. The
speakers represented the National
Student League, the American
League Against War and Fascism,
the Menorah Club and several
other school societies. Attempts by
police to disrupt the meeting on
the excuse that the flag was too
small, failed. Many instructors dis
missed their classes and urged the
students to join in the strike.
CCNY Students Arrested
Over 700 students in the 23rd st,
branch Of City College streamed out
of their classrooms in response to
a strike call issued by the National
Student League yesterday and gath
cred in Madison Square Park to
hear speakers denounce the RIO,
TIC. demand the reinstatement OF
the students expelled for anti-R.O.
TIC. activity, and demand that the
dean cease his intimidation Of stu
dents.
More than hundred students Of
Townsend Harris High School join
ed in the demonstration and strike,
Earlier in the morning police ar
rested two students who were dis
tributing strike leaflets.
Hunter Girls Strike
In the Bronx annex of Hunter
College the girl students distrib-
uted leaflets in the morning call
ing on the students to strike
against war and war preparations.
Many gathered in a picket line
around the school carrying pla-
cards. The police, called by the
school administration, tore the
placards away from the girls and
attempted to disperse the strikers.
Despite this, 400 students left their
classrooms and joined in the mass
meeting outside.
The Student Council had voted
against the strike when the pres
/ ident of the college had threatened
to expel anybody who struck.
1900 At Columbia
On the Columbia campus at II
o'clock when faculty members and
student leaders of the Social Prob
lens Club, branch Of the National
Student League, addressed meet
ing of about 1000 students,
A short distance away 200 Curl
GUS others listened specifically to
an outside small fascist leader rail
at Jews, Communists, Irish and
foreigners in general.
Intimidation by administrations
was especially strong in the high
school, but the students defied the
school authorities and police called
by them and held several success
full strike meetings outside the
school.
A. M. Clark, principal of De
Witt Clinton, attempting to out
wit the students by calling an
assembly just before IL am. in
which he threatened to expel any
student who struck. When the
students gathered in front of the
library and walk they were met by
several plainclothesmen and five
police cars, who forcibly kept them
inside the building.
High School Students Hit War
About 1000 students of Thomas
jefferson High School in Brooklyn
marched out of their classrooms
little after II am. in defiance
of 80 policemen called by the prin-
cipal, and held mass picketing in
front of the schools. The demon
stration swelled to double its size
as workers of the neighborhood
joined in.
Eight youths, arrested Thursday
evening at the New Lots Evening
High School where police attacked
1000 students and young workers
who were demonstrating against
war, came up in court yesterday
morning. Six were freed and two
we're held for disorderly conduct
They were defended by Attorney
Goldberg of the International La
Dor Defense.
Harvard Students Strike
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, April 49,
Five hundred students led by the
National Student League and the
League for Industrial Democracy