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sA!Ctl 0 have strik of si its i Sa wheiAided by recruits from San Francisco, and othci; radicals from Oakland, a parade was attempted. The marchers formed at I. W. W. hcadlt;|uartcrs proceeded up Washington street with the red flag at their head. The police automobile filled with patrolmen in charge of Captain of Police Lynch swung full speed into the procession, and returning quickly proceeded to bludgeon all in the street, even the usual Sunday night throng who had taken no part in the affair.The regular Sunday night meeting of the Socialists was ill session at the Hamilton Auditorium and the members of the crowd made that their objective point. The meeting was about to adjourn when the marchers arrived and announced another meeting to be held in the hall. The police auto approached the spot in front of the hall and the rebels united in three ehccrs for free speech.The meeting in the hall had not gotten under way when another police auto appeared and the reserve police jumped from it clubbing those (who had not yet entered the hall, driving them inside. Here the police followed them and those who were quietly seated in the hall received a taste of “Lawrence tactics.*’The Oakland World in a special issue gives the following account of what then occurred..’For the third time indiscriminate clubbing was resorted to. Many of the audience inside the hall were quietly seated and were thunder struck when they found the hall filled tvith striking and cursing blue coats.The police seemed beside themselves. Women were roughly pushed and prodded to the doorway; men were beaten to the floor and flung bruised a/id bleeding down the stairs, where they lay on the pavement unconscious. County Organizer Frank Strawn-Hamilton, . who was in the rear of the hall, was beaten over the head by two policemen and, dazed and streaming with blood, hurled to the pavement below. Inside the hall the policemen were striking with an abandoned brutality. They ran men down the aisle; they climbed over the backs of seats after them. When men fell under their blows, they beat and clubbed them as they lay.Comrade J. B. Chestnut, chairman of the meeting, was dragged from the platform, receiving a severe scalp wound from a patrol man’s stick. C. A. Bascom, a Berkeley Social, ist, was beaten into insensibility, and flung bodily to. the sidewalk.But the crowning infamy of all came when a maddened patrolman attempted to club Comrade H. C. Tuck, editor of the World, who is nearly 60 years of age and totally blind. The blows would undoubtedly have fallen on his head but that Comrade Mace stepped in between and warded them off. No attention was paid to the pleading of his blind* wife, who clinging to him, called pitifully to the frantic policeman not to strike her sightless husband.While the raid was being made upon the hall, J. H. Foiscs, a Socialist and labor agitator, who has been speaking on the streets for years, was arrested at Thirteenth .and Jefferson streets. Holding aloft a banner, he vigorously asserted his right to free speech. He was surrounded by policemen and blows were rained upon him. Dragged to the police station, he was again set upon, and once more the brave defenders of the city glutted their vengeance on an old man of over sixty, striking and kicking him as he reeled in' the cell, bleeding profusely from a scalp wound and! with one hand disabled by the breaking of bones In his wrist.(Continued on pngs four.)resei mine tong to a T1 used renc calls retri anar strili to t! the wou end the D; of t effoi the dun Fi TheAi Jam T. V ham Mar Tl son bore in a ing ceed heat
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Spokane Industrial Worker
Spokane, Washington, US
Thu, Mar 14, 1912
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