The Washington times., 1936-08-28

He crawled and dragged himself
across the sidewalk and back into
the lobby as more blows rained
upon his now-numbed body. He
finally made his escape by a side
entrance, and fled up an alley to
another street where he found a
taxi driver willing to take him
home. At home he summoned a
doctor who found he had a black
eye, innumerable bruises over his
body, badly-cut lip and so many
decorations inside his mouth he
could hardly speak for days. His
left hand was so badly bruised he
still Is unable to use it.
Police Give No Aid
Jack Obutofer, green edition
circulation branch manager, left
the PoSt-Intelligencer Building late
in the afternoon on Thursday,
August 13. to inspect his car.
Then the mob swarmed over
him. He was struck four terrific
blows in the face. One of his
lower teeth was knocked out, and
a blow on the opposite side of
his face raised a welt nearly
the size of an apple. His nose
was smashed almost flat. Blood
streamed down the front of his
shirt from his numerous cuts.
After this attack, the police
finally did come to his assistance
and held the pickets back. They
made no arrests, however, merely
asking Obutofer what he wanted
to do" He replied that he wanted
only to get out of here" The
officers stood about his car as he
got in and drove away.
Ignore Police Guard
H. C. Mcintosh, green edition
suburban district manager-After
the announcement was made that
mob violence had forced the Post
Intelligencer to suspend publica-
tion. Mcintosh left the building to
go home. This was about 1880
p. M, Thursday, August 13. With
policemen on either side of them
as a guard, Mcintosh and three
other circulation department men
walked from the building to get
into a police car waiting at the
curb.
Ignoring the police guard, and
ignored by the police guard,
picketS Surged in and struck Nc
Intosh several times. In the short
distance from the building en-
trance to the curb, he was
punched violently in the back and
on the face. He was bruised on
the body and his lip was badly
swollen.
Harold Fackler and I. G. Fowler,
circulation department employees,
left the building at 9 p. m, Au-
gust 13, to go home after a picket
standing just inside the Sixth Ave
nue. entrance lobby had assured
them he would get them safely
out of the building. Just outside
the door the picket stopped them,
as other pickets gathered about
them. After warning them not to
attempt to reenter the building at
any time the picket-escort told
them they might go on. But after
they had walked about a block,
they looked back and saw six or
eight seamen, wearing American
Newspaper Guild picket ribbons,
Sneaking up on them.
Fackler leaped between two
parked cars as several of the mob
sters sprang at him. Fowler was
pinned against the side of brick
building by the remaining thugs.
Both Men Injured
Fackler, partly protected by the
parked cars, escaped with a black
eye, dislocated knuckle and a
disclocated cheek bone. Fowler
was badly bruised on the body, and
got a black eye and a bloody nose
before the "pickets" decided to
withdraw. All of their assailants,
the two victims said, had been
drinking heavily.
Tom Short, green edition circu-
lation manager-Seized by the
pickets shortly after he left the
Post-Intelligencer Building the
night the strike started, was badly
and bruised before
making his escape.
w. Chew, green edition branch
manager-Pursued several blocks
on foot after he left the news
papers plant, and after being
overtaken was surrounded by a
mob. He was slapped and struck
in the face several times before a
ran and summoned police
whose arrival caused the crowd to
diSperSe.
Solicitor Beaten
H. C. Newbaum, circulation de-
partment solicitor-PicketS fol-
lowed him from Post-Intelligencer
Building down the ramp into the
Post-Intelligencer parking lot,
where he had gone to get his car.
He was severely beaten before
making his escape.
Anthony Almada, who drove a
car conveying loyal Post-Intelli-
gencer employees home-the morn
ing of Friday, August IA, the day
after the strike had been declared
and Almada had aided in the res
cue of besieged Post-Intelligencer
from the building, he
was followed into. a garage where
he parked his car. From four or
five cars, burly longshoremen,
teamsters and timber workers de-
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