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Harbor Girl and Hammond H. S. Senior Among Those ArrestedChief of Police Tom Martinson of Hammond said Inst night that . the police were called to the Shell refinery (Iiron^h n false alarm and that contrary t® early reports received at the station there was no meeting nor dispersion of radicals at the Shell refinery'yesterday. The police went to the refinery gntea and found no demonstration there and have not yet been able; to trace the en-Il they received, which was the basis of the false reports.The arrest of nine alleged officials of the Trade Union Unityleague by local police late yesterday afternoon spoiled Indiana Harbor s . share in the international Red demonstration ordered from Moscow for yestreday.Four persons were looked and will be tried on charges of instigating a riot, while the others were taken by police- before they could join the^ demonstration planned at Michigan and Block avenue, and were turned loose by police after the excitement had been quelled, YOUTHS AHllBSTED Those held include Ethel Stevens of 1733 Broadway, who is said to-be a messenger and organizer for the central committee of the Young Communists party; Anna Mows of 4002 Alder street, A. M. Chapa of I 1207 141st street, and Paul Bucha, Hammond High school senior of 348 Henry street.Sam Rudy, Hammond; Tom Staley, Blue Island; Paul Dilebero of 3472 Michigan avenue, Michael Fererth Chicago, and George Maxwell, colored of Chicago, were arrested in a conference in a restaurant at 3472 Michigan avenue, shortly before the intended celebration took place at 5:00 o’clock.The five men are alleged to be group leaders of the Trade Unity league.GETS $8 A DAYDilebero told police, thnt he wasemployed at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube company as a rougher and ho makes about eight dollars a day. He said he thought all workmen should organize.Staley was discharged from the Standard Oil company refinery at Whiting last October %vhen he attempted to organize workmen there.The center of the disturbance took place at Michigan avenue and Blqck where Bucha and Chapa attempted to harrange workmen as they came from the Inland milks at 5:00 o’clock.Captains Nicholas Makar and Ed Knight of the East Chicago police department were personally in charge of the situation and they were aided by police and firemen held in reserve at centers throughout the city.GIRL WWTS TO SPEAK Ethel Stevens started to speak and was hustled into the waiting police cars. A group of women evii dently in sympathy with the demonstration booed police and Sergeant. Ralph Schilling was struck a resounding blow on the nose as he attempted to make them move on.Bucha was smothered by police as he sounded the communistic 'tocsin of “Follow Workmen, witness the usual oppression by capitalistic po-• • • ilice,—j A crowd of curious workmen num-j boring about 500 was dispersed by police and the women moved away grumbling, but a little later Mrs, Mows attempted to address a group of men and she was nrrested.NOT SERIOUS All of the prisoners were herded together in the upper cells at the Indiana Harbor police station where they staged an iir.pvomptu celebration of their own, singing the Internationale and other hyms qf the soviet.Police officials here believe that. the.ro are only a few radicals in the city, and the condition does not approach any serious proportions.,
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Whiting Evening Times
Whiting, Indiana, US
Fri, Mar 07, 1930
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