The Daily Worker

ARREST THREE
COMMUNISTS ON
SOCIALIST PLEA
Call Cops When W. P.
Terms Hillquit Scab

NEW YORK, Sept. 11.-Morris Hillquit, leader of the socialist party, returned from England on the British vessel "The Majestic," which sailed from Southampton with a crew consisting partly of scabs. On arriving in New York, he declared that he had reserved passage on the boat and could not cancel it. This is the excuse of a leader of the socialist party, allegedly a party of the working class and pretending to represent organized labor.

Hillquit was properly met at the pier when he arrived, by Communists and I. W. W.'s. In the evening the socialist party held a meeting at 10th street and Second Ave. The Workers (Communist) Party put up a stand at the opposite corner. Several comrades went into the socialist crowd carrying one of the banners which they carried during the demonstration (Continued on page 2)
Arrest Three New York Communists On Socialist Plea

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stration at the pier. This aroused the workers present, who jeered the socialist speaker.

Twit Hillquit for Scabbing.

They crowded over to the platform of the Workers (Communist) Party where Comrade Amter showed up the treachery of the "yellow scab socialist Hillquit, who for this act of treachery to the organized workers, should be thrown out of the labor movement."

Amter spoke for about 30 minutes when a policeman arrived demanding that the speaker present the permit for the meeting.

No permit is required in New York, and the cop knew it. The speaker informed him that police had been notified of the meeting and that is all that is required. This seemed to satisfy the cop for a moment, for he went away and the meeting proceeded. But not so the socialists. They had already caused the arrest of one comrade, Comrade Gordon, who acted as chairman of the meeting and they evidently insisted that the meeting of the Workers (Communist) Party be stopped.

A sergeant and the cop returned to the W. P. stand, and demanded that the crowd disband. Amter remonstrated with them for a time, and finally declared that he would continue with the meeting, and that the cop could arrest him. He spoke a few more words and was then arrested.

Court Has to Ponder.

Comrade Jack Stachel immediately mounted the platform, but was immediately arrested by the cop. There were no further comrades on hand, otherwise the cop would have had his hands full. The International Labor Defense bailed out the two comrades, who were put under $500 bonds each.

Comrade Gordon was fined $2, and not having the amount was dismissed. The judge considered the cases of Amter and Stachel and has to consult the law, in spite of the fact that Joseph R. Brodsky, the attorney of the International Labor Defense, pointed out that the law is on the side of the defendants. The matter will come up before the court later.