The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 15, 1930, Page 6

Page Four Square. New Address and m York City <Swrremed oy ere womyroany Punrisning C ue cks to the Daily Inc., tuyve except Sunday, at 2 1696-7-8, 28 Union Square. aily, s t Telephone Ww New York. Cable: “DATWORK.” Union Baily N SUBSCRIPTION Yeeres: w Yi City only): $8.00 a year; $4.50 six months; $2.50 three months By Mair renee oP New ‘ork Rey: $6.00 8 year; $3.50 six months; $2.00 three months Central Organ of the Commuust Variy of the:U. S. A. WHO ARE OUR CLASS ENEMIES? (Based on information from Labor Research ciation) HE brutality and terrorism of Tammany Hall, controlled by city administration and police, gives to the New York workers a splendid op- portunity to have an insight as to who are our judges and guardians of peace. District At- t Crain, together with the entire city ad- mini tion proclaimed the five leaders of the New York Unemployment Demonstrations on March 6 as “the most dangerous five men living in our community.” However, an insight into the record of Walker, Whalen, District Attorney Crain, and the Tammany administration as a whole, will make clear to the workers why such brutality ewas used in suppressing the demon- stration, and the heavy sentence imposed upon the five leaders of the New York demonstration of March 6. POLICE COMMISSIONER WHALEN Who is this Grover A. Whalen, what is his Before becoming Police Commissioner v York, he was general manager of the Wanamaker Department Store, where John young girls and boys work for from $12 to $14 a week, where the hours of work are not limited, where during the holiday periods the sales people and the shipping clerks work from 12 to 16 hours a day, where women workers in that department store are not allowed even to sit down, ‘Police Commissioner Whalen is one of the New York millionaires with interests in many big strike-breaking corporations. He is Vice-President and director of the American Trans-Oceanic Company. He is a trustee of the Metropolitan Savings Bank. He is a director ot the Advertising Club of New York. This is not the first public office that Grover Whalen held in New York City. He was Commissioner of Plants and Structures in New York, and while holding this office, developed a system of graft and political favoritism in giving out permits for the operation of bus lines. He and many other politicians working with him enriched | themselves from the revenue of bus lines in the Bronx. Because he was connected with the J hn Wanamaker Store, which gives a considerable amount of advertisement in the capitalist press, Grover Whalen, as treasurer succeeded to have the capitalist press in New York City support all his policies. When assuming the post as police commissioner, Grover Whalen developed a system of terror and slugging of strikers in order to cover up the implication of Tammany | Hall-in the Rothstein murder case. MAYOR WALKER The corruption and strike-breaking activity of the city apparatus particularly developed un- der the administration of Mayor Walker, one of | the ring-leaders of Tammany Hall. His at- titude toward the working class is particularly | characterized by his long record of strike-break- ing activity against the workers. Immediately after his re-election in 1929, the first act of Mayor Walker was to increase his salary by $15,000 annually, which amounts today to $40,000 a year, and a proportional increase to the Presidents of the five boroughs, This is done in the face of continuous unemployment and starvation wages that the city employees receive today. It was already proven that Mayor Walker derives income from other business con- cerns and corporations. The reported income of Mayor Walker in 1928 was $287,000, which he made largely in LR.T. stock. Besides send- ing his police to slug ‘workers, besides the Tam- many judges issuing Sweeping injunctions, Mayor Walker is also known for his order of evicting all the unemployed from public lodgings on the ground that they were “unsanitary.” It is not at all surprising that Chief City Magistrate William McAdoo, and District Attor- ney Crane are so vicious against the unem- ployed and their leaders. William McAdoo has a long record of anti-labor activity while serv- ing in, New Jersey legislature, in the house of representatives, as Assistant-Secretary of the Navy during the Cleveland administration, as police commissioner of New York in 1904-1905, during which he showed himself in the most brutal fashion as an agent of the bosses and as a bitter foe of labor. The same applies to Dis- trict Attorney Crane, who considers Foster, Minor, Amter, Lester and Raymond as the five most dangerous men in New York City. This stool-pigeon of the bosses who is definitely im- plicated fh the Rothstein murder case, dope smuggling, in the magistrate record and in other acts of corruption and graft of Tammany Hall, is now trying to white-wash himself by his ferocity against the leaders of the unemployed. This chieftan of Tammany Hall is today work- ing for a salary of $20,000 a year. All these grafters and parasites are’ part of the famous Tammany Hall machine which controlled the City administration in New York City for many years. A description of the role of Tammany Hall is given by the bourgeois writer M. H. Werner in his book “Tammany Hall,” where he states: : “Tammany men must always be supplied with desirable political jobs. The ‘Hall’ is not only. an association and building where men whose interests are mutual may meet in order io express those interests in politics; it is also a symbol of the fact ‘that every one is work- ing for his pocket and his benefit all the time’. It is virtually based on the principle of per- sonal aggrandisement for its members, cor- ruption, graft, racketeering, thievery, election frauds and general rotteness are justified in eyes of Tammany men in order to secure Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Communist Party U.S. A. 43 East 125th Street, New York City. 1, the undersigned, want to join the Commu- nist Party. Send me more information. wey Name ......ssccesecceceneesecccscoossneees Uccupation ......sccecevenccerces ABCronrae Mail this to the Central Office, Communist Party, 43 East 125th St., New ‘York, N.Y. cratic leaders are holding cit and hold control of New York City govern- ment.” This description is absolutely correct. Demo- or county jobs and paid city salaries. James Foley gets 500 a year as surrogate judge; F. Donahue, treas- urer of Tammany Hall, gets ,000 a year as commissioner fo water supply; James Egan, public administrator gets $10,000 a year; D. Ryan, transportation commissioner, $15,000 a year. We find that New York City ward work- ers paid during 1928 for personal services $242,252,949 John F, Curry, the present chief of Tammany Hall, is successfully carrying on the past tradi- tions of Tammany today. John Curry, who spent nearly half a million dollars for the recent wedding of his daughter, is making millions from holding political jobs, securing large con- tracts for personal friends and receiving a fat commission on each deal. Curry has also a growing insurance business which brings him increasing profit on the hard earned savings of the working class. The former chief of Tam- many Hall, the predecessor of Curry, Charles F. Murphy, who died in 1924, left an estate of over $2,000,000, made largely by commission on contracts given to Tammany friends. One contract on glucose to be supplied by a par- ticular firm paying him a commission of $5,000 a day for a considerable period. The history of the city administration, James Walker, Tam- mahy Hall, Police Commissioner Whalen and District Attorney Crain has some rich experi- ences of graft and corruption. We shall here only review a few of them, which will give every worker to understand why district at- torney Crain and Police Commissioner Whalen consider the Communists “The most dangerous men in society.” Of interest is the Queens sewer scandal. Mayor Walker completely ignored the fact that the residents of Queens had been plundered of over $10,000,000 in the single item of concrete sewer pipe. Mayor Walker urged the city of New York to provide funds for the defense of Morris Connolly, the Tammany leader in the County and Queens Borough Presidént, who was directly responsible for the sewer graft and share in it. In 1928, not to embarrass the elec- tion campaign of Al Smith, Tammany Hall did everything to forestall any investigation in the $10,000,000 graft, and pinned the entire respon- sibility to the Queens local leaders. In spite of the fact that all the capitalist press carried definite statements that. Connolly sustained and was responsible for the $10,000,000 graft, Con- nolly was one of the most zealous campaigners for Al Smith. * John M. Phillips, the agent for Sewer piping, contracted with Queens Borough for pipe in such a way that no pipe was legal except the one kind for which he was sole agent. The most favored contractors were those who paid staggering prices for pipe. An outrageous price was then quoted from the high’ assessment levied upon the taxpayers. A contractor would pay Phil- lips for the agreement in thousand dollar bills, often totalling over $80,000 for one bill, and Borough President Connolly, the Tammany chief in that county, and partner to Mayor Walker, Police Commissioner Whalen and District At- torney Crain, signed eyery contract Phillips wanted to have given, and refused to sign every bid that Phillips wanted to pass out. As a result of these years of graft, Connolly is now worth $1,000,000. ‘ In the Smith elections, how- ever, Phillips, the agent for sewer piping, did not forget Tammany Hall and donated $80,000 to the Tammany Hall campaign fund. Natur- ally, in order to save their face before the work- ers, Tammany Hall instituted a fake inquiry into the scandal. The results of the “investiga- tion” white-washed Tammany Hall and its agents in that county and no one was called to any responsibility. Another example which will give the work- ers an insight as to who are the judges of the five leaders of the unemployed in New York, and who.are the enemies and police who break strikes thru injunctions and work hand in glove with the A. F. of L. and the Socialist Party: The Rothstein murder case shows definitely how Tammany Hall, Mayor Walker and the Police Department of New York City were partners with the underworld. Arnold Rothstein, who was murdered at a gamblers’ hotel in Novem- ber, 1929, made his mofey by hustling pickets, pusheart peddlers and poor, sick pickpockets. He was well known for fixing strikes in the A. F. of L., instructing police to lay off a group of A. F. of L. pickets and to lay on against the left-wing and the Communist pickets. Rothstein also fixed the police in other games and dealt profitably with dope fiends. He made money in the wholesale distribution of dope and shared his profits with the police and Tam- many Hall. He gambled in real estate, prosti- tution, speakeases, and cards with the full knowledge and protection of the police, If a prostitute or cheap speakeasy did not come across with a fee, thru Rothstein, the police would sooner or later move against that pros- titute or that speakeasy. All this was known to the police commissioner and to Rothstein’s personal friend, Mayor James Walker. Not only that, Rothstein paid regular salaries in the form of loans to the magistrates, as was proven in th ecase of Vitale, who re- ceived from Rothstein a loan of $19,940. When Rothstein was murdered, Mayor Walker, and the police department, because of fear of the racketeers involved in the murder caused a gen- eral paralysis of the police force, Tammany Hall and the police department are well aware of the murder of Rothstein, because being themselves involved, sidetracked all inquiry into that case. THE VITALE CASE. HE office of a city magistrate in New York City is bought from Tammany Hall at a large price—from $10,000 to $15,000, The city magistrate for Manhattan and Bronx receives a salary of $12,000 a year. Magistrate Albert Vitale, besides receiving $12,000 a year in sal- ary, also made an additional income in a period of four years, while serving on the bench, of $165,000. This was made in the form of graft and intergst paid by the underworld, such as the $19,940 check paid by the murdered gang- ster Rothstein, On December 7, 1929, a wel- come home dinner was staged for Vitale who had-been on vacation after campaigning for Walker, at the Bronx Roman Gardens Restau- rant. At a certain hour, seven men raided the dinner party and robbed the guests of $5,000. Among the guests were well known criminals and the detective, Otto C. Johnson, whose ser- GUILTY! Mellon Grabs Tax Millions While Jobless Starve WASHINGTON, March 14.—Charges that billionaire Mellon, secretary ‘ofthe’ treasury, is handing out $33,500,000 in tax refund to the U. S. Steel Corporation, for his own per- sonal profit, were made todayein the Senate. While 7,000,000 workers walk the streets without work, facing starvation, the Hoover imperialists have handgd over $160,000,000 to the rich bosses. Of this $33,500,000 is gup- posed to go to the steel bosses. Mellon is charged with getting a big chunk of this as himself, as he has large. holdings. in Steel Corporation. « Many of the Mellon corporations in Pennsyl- vania are scheduled to be given millions. vice revolver was taken by the hold-up men, | but returned: te him immediately after the affair by Magistrate Vitale himself. The whole “hold-up affair was pre-arranged and for cer- tain definite purposes. Among the criminals who attended this welcome home. ‘dinner. as guests was Ciro Terranova, the artichoke king, | fronts in the present period cle: so-called because he gfows vegetables apd | taxed all Italian restaufants for artichokes purchased. According to: the chief’ of ‘the criminal detective bureau of the New York po- lice department, Terranova had signed a con- tract to pay Chicago gunmen $20,000 for the murder of two gangsters who competed with | him, Frank Yale and Frank Marlow. Having paid $5,000 of the contract. money, Terranova refused to pay the remaining $15,000, . The killers threatened to hand over the contract written by Teranova to the police if the $15,- 000 were not forthcoming. An agent of the Chicago gunmen was sent to New York to deliver the ultimatum to Terranova, detectives’ chief testimony showed, and was told to bring the document to Vitale’s dinner. Instead of paying the $15,000, Teranova was said to have smiled as the robbers took the contract from the Chicago agent and fled with it. The New York police department, Tammany Hall and the entire judicial system was definitely im- plicated in the case, as proven by the fact’the Detective Johnson was asked to have no alarm sent out for his lost revolver, which he re- ceived back within two hours. All this shows to the workers of New York and of the United States only one thing: that those who are today sentencing the five strike leaders of the unemployed demonstration of March 6, those who issue injunctions against workers, are part and parcel of the underworld and live on graft and corruption and the sweat of the workers. Tammany Hall and its admin- istration is afraid that the workers may learn a lesson from*these parasites attacks upon the workers and the Communist Party. Pages could be written on the graft and corruption in which Mayor Walker and the entire judicial machine shared, in the sewer and garbage disposal case, in the push-cart peddlers and the department of markets, in the Department of Health and the city mill supply, in the bus franchise and a number of other instances where millions are made in graft at the expense of the city population. The lesson the workers, have to learn from this is that in the coming congressional and 4 state elections, the workers must rally to the program and support the struggles of the Com- munist Party. The workers must learn that graft and corruption is only a part of the capitalist system. It is a reflection of %he system of society which we live in today and therefore to struggle against graft and cor- ruption mears to struggle against capitalist society, means to struggle against the govern- ment, State and Federal, and fight for the destruction of the capitalist system, which is the only method thru which graft, corruption and parasites can be destroyed, The Training of Professional Revolutionists By JOHN NORTH PERHAPS there ate soine’ conirades, that’ “do not fully grasp the meaning of “and” the necessity of more trained professional revolu- tionaries in our Pa’ F of all, professional revolutionaries are working for definite class interests. In this case it is in the inter of the working class. The students of the National Training School of our Par realize that politics is a science and art which” cannot be’ acquired’ and ‘fully mastered in a day, but requires very serious and studious effort on one’s part, so we are utilizing ‘the opportunity, we, now have to the fullest possible extent within the alloted period of six short» weeks: ? 8 The inte’ sification of class conflicts on all rly shows the necessity of the Party having more comrades who are in a position to act with responsibility in a given situation, on the basis of the clear cut Party line. .” of axes The students of the National Traini hool know=full well what willbe requited<@f us when through with the’ intensive trainitig af- forded us. SS Sevcparey In short, professional _revolutionaries™are ttained by the Party, whose aim is to develop them to be as superior in ability and in some cases far more superior than the politicians of the bourgeoisie. The comrades thus trained will in turn de- vote the whole of their lives to the realization of the proletarian revolution, and with this ultimate goal in mind, always above anything and everything, it will not be as long as we may think for. But we are going to do our damned best to make jt in the very near fu- ture, by persistently fighting with and educat- ing the broad working class masses. Negro Workers Fought in Front Ranks March 6 BALTIMORE.—In spite of the warning and threats of. the police that the law must be obeyed and the Communisis will have to carry out the city ordinances, that. a permit must be applied for in the mayor’s office, the unem- ployment demonstration was held with about 6,000 participants and abut 20,000 that watched the demonstration. The city officials were anxious that we should apply for a permit. They sent for us and tried to convince us that we should take one out, This we refused to do. Workers do not ned to get.a permit to march on the streets which were built by the workers. For fear of making the Communist’ Party too popular among the masses by trying to stop our parade the Baltimore police allowed us to have a peaceful. demonstration, They hoped to stop the response of the workers to our call for. work or wages. Did they accom- plish this? By no means. We started to march with 300 and were marching through the most congested indus- trial areas in the city. When we reached the City Hall our ranks swelled to thousande, The police were prepared with clubs and tear gas bombs. 900 policemen and plain-clothesmen were mobilized. At the city hall plaza the crowd was so large that we had to speak from two different platforms. The demonstration was the largest ever held. After the demonstration was over officially most of the participants came back to the headquarters and 300 registered on March 6th into the Councils of Unemployed. Many joined the Communist Party. Tha overwhelming majority in the demon- By Fred Beal HE Rabbis of Minsk, Ménashem Gluskin, Ovsei. Zimbanist, Herr Masel, Gabriel Gab- rielov, Osher Kerstein and Mandel Jarcho have issued an appeal to all orthodox Jews reading as follows: It has come to our knowledge that a number of rabbis abroad have made common cause with the bitterest enemies of the Jewish people and of the Jewish religion in attacking the Soviet the persecutor of the Jewish people. and the Jewish religion. We ‘are deeply indignant at the fact that a Jewish rabbi in Paris took part in a joint reli- gious service with the notorious inspirer of anti-Jewish pogroms and leader of the Black Hundreds, the Metropolitan Eulogius. We are indignant at the fact that the Roman Pope Union, hi an appeal can be issued in the name of religion which can very well bring with it the greatest slaughter, how one can commit a terrible crime against religion allegedly in order to benefit jt. We are of the opinion that these people are united by other aims than the protection of religion. The bloody crimes which were com- mitted against the Jewish people by some of those people who now pretend to protect our sreligion have not. been forgotten by us. We declare herewith that we need no such protec- tion in the Soviet Union. We cannot separate our lot from that of the Jewish people, and the Soviet government is the only government in the world which energetically crushes all tendencies toward anti-Semitism. We are opposed to the anti-religious and atheist propaganda of the Communist Party, but we must be just and declare also that the Communist Party is rigidly opposed to anti- Semitism and expels all anti-Semites from its ranks, We must "remember that the Soviet government is now in control of a country in which for c\enturies an animal hatred of the Jews was fostered. We have not forgotten the bloody: pogroms we suffered prior to the vevolution. “A fact of the greatest historical importance “is the decree “issued by the leader jor the Communist Party and the head of the vief government, Lenin declaring the anti- Semites as the enemies of the Soviet govern- ment. Under. British dominance in Palestine cesses of the Arabs against the Jews are possible and in Roumnia and other countr pogroms and an open anti-Semitic campaign are still possible, but in the Soviet Union the authorities and public opinion in general sup- press all tendencies to anti-Semitism with all possible means including legal prosecution, We are compelled to, declare to the whole world that th> Soviet power is the only power which takes measures to give a people op- revolution, the possibility of improving its lot. The Soviet. power. gives Jews land and provides them in their new homes with the means of production. It gives them the same rights as all.other nationalities and permits them to elect their own self-administrative érgans, the Soviets, particularly in the Jewish colonies. All the shameful laws which oppressed the Jewish people have been abolished. In the Soviet Union all paths are open to the Jews, they can -enter, the, State schools, enter the State services, ete., whereas in a number of countries outside the Soviet Union such unfair limitations still exist against, the Jewish people. As far as relgion is concerned, the Soviet power gave the Jews equal rights with all other nationalities for the first time in history. The decree separating the Church from the State and the school from the Church prohibits any discrimination between believers and unbe- lievers. We have neyer been subjected to any persecution under the Soviet power on account of our religious convictions. There have been cases where Jewish rabbis and others have been put our religious activities are perfectly legai and open, and no single case is known to us of any persecution in connection with them. With regard to the reports spreati abroad concerning the execution or other severe punishment. of rabbis in the Soviet Union, we must declare. very definitely, that all such reports are in- sventions which have no basis whatever in fact. We consider it our duty to declare before ened or is threatened with the death sentence or with any other severe punishment in the Soviet Union. During the whole period of the Soviet power no single rabbi has been executed anywhere in the Soviet Union . In those few cases where the Soviet authorities have arrest- ed rabbis or other ministrants of the Jewish faith, the reason has not been religious but civil. In addition, it must be said that the Soviet power deals more justly with accused persons than any other power. A striking proo! of this fact is the acquittal of a number of rabbis in Minsk eecéntly who were arrested in connection with offenses against the Soviet laws. Thanks to the objectivity of the Soviet authorities they were very soon released. We rabbis hope and trust that the Soviet power will continue to treat us in the future as justly as we have been treated in the past. With regard to the fact. that the Communist Party and the Young Communist League de- mand that their members break with religion, it must be pointed out that, like the Atheist Association, these organizaions are quite volun- tary, no one is compelled to join them, and in oor religious,persons are not accepted as mem- TS. We cannot deny that the number of irreli- gious persons in the Soviet Union is growing rapidly, but this is also the case in many other countries. In our country the process is quicker and more obvious. Where synagogues have been closed down, this was done not by the authorities, but by the Jewish masses themselves? It is true that this limits our influence, but nevertheless, we are convinced that the religious convictions of the Jews in the Soviet Union are stronger than the demonstrative religiousness in many other countries where the religious organizations are often instruments in the hands of the State. We cannot ignore the fact that neither he Pope nor he Archbishop of Canterbury took stration were the Negro masses, who, more and more, recognize the Communist Party as the only leader of the working class and, the fighter against discrimination, segregation, lynching and Jim-Crowism. Union and representing the Soviet power as | has appealed for a crusade against the Soviet | and we are unable to understand how pressed and persecuted up to the time of the | punished for offenses against the Soviet laws, | the world that no single rabbi has been threat- | MINSK RABBIS CONDEMN ANTI-SOVIET CAMPAIGN —$<—$ $ $< any measures against the persecution of the | Jews under the Czar. Why did they both | remain ‘silent ‘when Denikin and other white guardist bands were slaughtering the Jews in | the Ukrainia in the years 1918-19, when they murdered the well-known rabbi of Njeshin, when the Thora rolls lay desecrated on the ground stained with the blood of helpless old inen and young children? These facts arouse in us a lively mistrust of the present action | of Pope Pius XI and the other church dig- nitaries against the Soviet Union. We protest with all energy against the eru- sade organized by the Pope against the Soviet Union. Let the Jews remember what the former Catholic crusades meant to them. We | appeal to all orthodox jews to remember the persecutions suffered by the Jewish people at | the hands of those who are now fighting against the Soviet Union. We appeal to all | orthodox Jews to protest with all possible en- ergy against this anti-Soviet crusade, and to bear in mind that the people who are organ- izing it wish to restore the Purishkevitchs, the | Markovs, the Eulogius’ to power in our country so that they can once again cause Jewish blood to flow. | Yaroslavski Deals With the Pope { MOSCOW, (By Inprecorr Press Service)— | In a speech delivered yesterday and broadcasted | by the Soviet wireless, the leader of the Atheist Association in the Soviet Union, Yaroslavski dealt with the manifesto of the Pope and de- clared that the history of the Papacy was a chain of crime, persecution and repression against humanity in the interests of obscuran- ticism, and that this well-known fact robbed the Papal action of any justification or power of conviction. Referring eth s were without any moral sense, Yaro- slavski reminded the Italian Pope, that atheists had saved the lives of his fellow Italian Ca- | tholics of the Nobile expedition at the north pole at risk of their own lives. He challenged comparison between the honor and integrity n atheist Bolshevists and Italian Ca- | | \ | to the papal accusation that | Association, he declared that it was a private as which had no means of influencing the masses of the Soviet Union apart from the agitation and propaganda to spread achievements of science and knowledge. | Referring to the campaign for the closing’ of churches and smelting of church bells for industrial purposes, Yaroslavski solemnly warned his hearers against over zealousness. No churches should be closed down or bells removed unless such action really had the support and free consent of the overwhelming majority of the population, as otherwise such ction would split the ranks of the workers and peasants. | | | | Workers Smash Anti-Soviet Meet i ¢ PARIS, (By Inprecorr Press Service)—Re- | volutionary workers attended an anti-Soviet | meeting in the Bullier Hall here much to the | discomfort of the reactionaries, The anti- Soviet tirades of the speakers were continually | interrupted by hecklers and __ occasionally | drowned in cheers for the Soviet Union.. The | projection of a film allegedly depicting the | t | | “Red Terror” was prevented altogether. | These film actually show scenes during the progroms of the Petlura bands against the Jews in the Ukrainia, progroms which were crushed by the arriva] of the Red Army. Vi- olent collisions occurred between the revolu- tionary workers on the one hand and the reactionaries and police on the other, | On the Place d’Italie near the hall a group of police escorting arrested workers away from ; the meeting was attacked by .other workers | who drove off the police and released the prisoners. Meetings of workers in favor of the Soivet Union also took place on the Bou- levard St. Michel and near the Invalides. Sheriff Ordered to Shoot Pickets ELIZABETHTON, Tenn—Sheriff J. M. Moreland of Carter county resigned on the expressed grounds that: i “I was forced out by a bunch that wanted me to go out on the highway and shoot down pickets if they didn’t do like these people wanted them to do. Politics also had a lot to do with it.” ' Defend the Negro Workers CHICAGO.—An_ incident. in the Chicago demonstration of Feb. 21, as follows, is worthy bs of attention and the subtraction of a lesson therefrom. A young girl worker, who was in the | clutches of several officers, wasegiven aid by two workers, one a Negro worker, who mili- «tantly fought the police. The bosses’ pet tools, the police, seeing the Negro worker fighting » along side the white worker to rescue the girl, became furious. All the hatred and ferocious- ness arose at the cry, “get that black bastard.” Mounted police, police in uniform, and police’ in plain clothes immediately concentrated their attack upon the Negro worker. Came the charge. Two mounted police drove the Negro worker against the wall. - Every avenue of re- treat was blocked. Police clubs lashed heavily upon the head of the Negro worker and to the tune of the oaths, the worker was given a severe beating. Finally, the horse of one of the attackers reared hack and the beseiged victim lunged into an open space to be hotly pursued by an- other mounted policeman who wildly swinging his club at the worker's head. The Negro worker jumped onto the running board of a passing aut’. In an instant came a street car which cut off the chase of the officer. Thus the badly beaten worker" made his escape amidst the throng of workers who stood aghast at witnessing such a debacle. The white workers must at all times rush to the defense of the Negro workers. NY