New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 26, 1918, Page 9

H DIERS BREAK UP CIALIST MEETING brs and Marines Join in fison Square Demonstration w York, Nov. 26.—The heavy le guard around Madison Square jen last night saved the Socialist meeting inside from being at- d by a crowd of about 500 sol- , sailors and marines who wer recruited about Madison Square ifth avenue and in Broadway e report that the American flag ibeing insulted by Socialists. er the police had dispersed the | ers and sailors several times, returned about 9:30 in their full gth, bore down the policemen on on the Twenty-sixth street side e Gard and began to hammer loors, while the Socialists inside cheering messagess of congrat- | n to be sent to the Socialists of hany and exhortations to the So- | ts of this country to prove them- worthy of the Socialists of the world by bringing on a revolu- here. ing unwilling to use their clubs n in uniform, the foot policemen at a disadvantage, and the doors | have been smashed were it not t the critical moment twenty- fnounted policemen who had been in readiness in the basement of arden came out, clattered down fdewalk and gradually pushed the in war service uniforms westward avenue , attacking forces made the n Madison Square at the they assailed they would he i themselves in a maze of stai office nd anterooms, and i have had considerable difficulty netrating to the wmeeting itself. of the men in uniform were other cities and did not have the of the Garden As it was, the k occurred at a point so far from ssembly hall that the socialists with noise of their own mak- | id not even know of the effort to the meeting. o meeting itse ky from the beginning, the crowd bh occupled the main floor and all alleries being on their fcet with sment every few minute fpasms of excitement Ih swept over the crowd were for scoverable cause, but occasional- ey were because a red flag or a hirt were furtively dropped from PE the galleries by an adventurous g Socialist, who tried immediately se himself in a seething ana ing erowd. three occasions when the red as dropped from the gallery or over a gallery rail, pélicemen, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, "1918, s WANTED We have upwards of 2000 unfinished garments for which there is urgent need. Additional Orders for notice. EE WILL BE ISSUED AT ONCE. Every woman in the city should bear in mind that the need for work on these garments is very essential now and should try to devote as much time as possible to the work. National headquarters urges us to continue all Work on hospital garments and knitting until further 20 COURT STREET membe: of the Police Reserve and soldie nd sai plunged through the audience to the spot, while the whole meeting in a mixed demonstra tion of congratulation for the hardy Socialist color sergeant who had sneaked a banner into view and then fled, and disapproval for those who were trying to seek him out On one other occasion two young women and two men unfurled over the railing a red banner which con- | tained in white letters an appeal for the liberation of Thomas Mooney, who was the subject of a large part of the specech making. The banner was taken away from them and the two | men were arrested, while the young women addressed the audience in shrill voices, and called for a display of Socialist manhood, until Scott Nearing and others on the platform pleaded with them to let the meeting | eroceed o offi 1 attempt was made to hoist the forbidden banner, and the Socialist leaders who h cha of the meeting discouraged the flag- wagging element vigorously. A large | part of the words of the speakers failed to reach the ears of their aud- jence because of the semi-uproar | which continued through most of the evening. These speakers were limit- ed to fifteen minutes each, and the encroachments of their time caused outspoken disgust on the part of some of them. Scott Nearing, who presid- ed, begged Tepeatedly for order, and announced that genuine Socialists who were engaging in the distu AN CH must be are that they were injur. ing the c which was so dear to em. Nine Sc alists Arrested. A total of 1 2 persons were ar- rested in the meeting for violating Mayor Hylan's order against play | of the red banner and will be ¢ rged with disturbing the peace and at- | tempting to incite a riot. While red banners appeared only » disappear in a few conds, there | ! was three or four tim much red lon display as at ordinar. Socialist | rallies Several hundred women at the meecting wore red sweaters ,and everal hundred of the men wore red neckties, which won beatings for many of them from the soldiers after the meetin Many women wore their ha ithed with red cloth and wore | red sashes around their waists. The men who did not have red neckties | usually defied Mayor Hylan by having red rosettes or red ribbons in {heir buttonholes Abraham Beckerman, the Socialist alderman. who appeared with a lJarge red bow in the lapel of his coat, said: “We are thankful to Mayor Hylan for popularizing this color.” Undue emphasis of the color was | opposed by those in charge of the meeting, who rebuked the displayers of the red banner and begged them to turn their us attention to the principles involved and not to the optical symbol. Nearly every speak- | er pleaded with the audience to re- spect the law, and, as if by prear- ranged plan, all called upon the aud- icnce to recognize that policemen, be prosecuted, because stenogr who were s 'red every few feet ) were present taking down through the audience, were there in | that was said, while A response to orders duly delivered by | Attorney Alexander the administration which had re- | Thomas D. McCarthy and other repre- | police lines for wearers of red insignia. ceived a majority of the votes at the | sentatives of the Gov last election near the platform The speeches also were mild and | false step, well within th law. The speakers The m everything i sailors with clubs who: offensive Rorke, Marshs the police, were waiting outside the rnment phers up, when scveral hundred soldlers and overcrowded bhuilding had heen balked [ ing in recruits, and they had an arm [ they formed in good order and march- | of about five hundred when they strict | against the hall had be topped by | ed up Fifth avenue, sending scouts|back to Madison Square. Here tI along the sidewalk, who stopped pri- | held an open-air meeting, at whic l\;m» soldiers and sailors and said: patriotic speeches were made by men 1 w Before the night was over this “Fall in. We are going to break up | in uniform, until they decided upon for any | group of men in uniform had drawn | a meeting of Socialists who are at- | the attac on the building, whicl to their ranks most of their fellows in | tacking the flag.” might have been successful, if they critical time for the per- | the city between Madison Square and After marching up Fifth avenue to a leader who knew the terrain had ample warning that anything in | sonal safety of the 10,000 Socialists at | Forty-second street. After their early | Forty cond street a number of [ well enough to direct them to a dif conflict with the sedition law would ' the meeting was after it had broken peaceful attempt to enter the already | parties went over to Broadw: bring- | ferent entrance. 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