The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02
Councils CaUMeeting
Tonight in answer to.
Savage Police Assault
To Hold Nightly Meets
at South End of
Union So.

to all workers to mass at Union
Square every night at o'clock to
defend their right to the use of
Union Square for open-air meet
ings in the face Of a growing
police terror and violence. In
statement to Mayor LaGuardia
and Police Commissioner John P.
Organ, the Councils demanded
that the police keep their hands
off the jObIesS workers, and de-
clared that the workers of New
York will hold LaGuartlia and his
officials entirely responsible for
any consequences growing out of
the repeated police attacks.
NEW YORK. With drawn guns,
viciously smuggling a peaceful assem-
bly of workers, cops descended on
Union Square Saturday, and firing
three shots while they covered the
defenseless workers with rifles and
shotguns, broke up a regular meet
ing of the Unemployment Council.
AS radio cars drew up and started
to smash the meeting, the workers
resisted and clustered around the
speakers stand while Clarence
Roth, organizer of the 18th ST.
Block Assembly, read the Bill of
Rights. Whipping out riot guns
and revolvers, the police, without
warning, slashed away at the
workers.
The lines of the workers broke,
only to reform about the stand,
heroically defending themselves. AS
more radio cars arrived, the cops
han led a riot gun to U. S. Marine,
Private Nicholas Nazaretian of the
u. S. S. Colorado, which is now in
the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
With sadistic fury the police at
tackled one unidentified worker.
While some cops kicked him and
stamped on his PROSTATE body,
others dubbed his head. One cop,
while the head and face Of the I'M
y conscious worker streamed with
blood. beat the worker about the
head and face with a lead-weighted
blackjack. Meanwhile more than a
hundred cops, with drawn guns, at
tackled and SIugged other workers.
A motorcycle cop drove his machine
at full speed into the clustered
groups of workers.
Cops singled out Paul Block, or
ganizer of the Relief Workers
League, and, after clubbing him,
placed him under arrest. Frieda
Jackson, organizer of the Upper
Harlem Unemployment Councils,
together with two others, was
slugged and jailed. A thug de-
scended from motor car bearing
me license number Gil 2282 and
blackiacked defenseless workers
while the cops covered his victims
with rifles and guns.
The workers refused to leave the
Square. despite the guerilla attacks
of the police, and until midnight
hastily formed picket lines lines
cireled the Square while improYised
protest meetings were held from the
wall which surrounds the park.
kilograms protesting the police
attacks were dispatched yesterday
to Roosevelt, LaGuardia, Governor
Lehman, and to Police Commits
sioner Organ. The telegram to
LaGuardia stated; I'VE demand
cessation of the police attacks and
terror against working class speak
ers who expose the program of your
/, banker bosses and the hunger relief
to the unemployed Of inadequate
disqualification, slashed relief, no
rent checks and damned little of
anything that you promised during
your election campaign.
'We are going to continually use
Union Square for street meetings
and we demand that your police
thugs keep their bloody hands off
the jobless and other workers. We
hold you personally responsible for
any consequences growing out of
renewed police attacks"
All workers are urged to pack
the Square tonight at O'Clock at
the meeting of the Tom Mooney
Branch of the International Labor
Defense held jointly with the
Downtown Unemployment COun-
ellis, called to demand the release
of Ernst Thaelmann and all vic
Tins of German FasciSm, Angelo
Herndon and the Scottsboro boys,
and to protest the brutal assault
upon the workers at Union Square
on Saturday.
Workers in the unions, unem-
ployed groups, veterans Organiza
tions! Workers in the neighbor
hoods! Students and intelIectuals!
All who believe in the elementary
rights of the working class to
strike, to picket, to assemble!
Eject delegates TO demand that
the LaGuardia police keep their
bloody hands off the working
class Of New York! Join with the
: mass delegation which will meet
at 222 Seventh Ave-, Tuesday,
July 8, at 10 am, and protest at
City Hall, demanding an end to
police violence and assaults!