Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-25 | Page 2 | Reading is Quiet after Excitement of Sunday Night

READING IS QUIET AFTER EXCITEMENT OF SUNDAY NIGHT READING, Pa., Nov. 24. After a night of excitement as the result of the determination de-termination of citizens to prevent a mans meeting of Socialists, Heading calmed down today and confidence was expressed ex-pressed that no more attempts would be made by alleged radicals to stir up unrest un-rest in this city. Socialists had advertised a meeting for last night at which the Rev. Irvin St. John Tucker of Chicago was expected to speak on the amnesty of political prisoners, pris-oners, in defiance of the city authorities, who had forbidden the gathering. This defiance resulted in an open-air mass meeting in the afternoon, at which the decision was reached to prevent the Socialist So-cialist meeting. Five thousand persons gathered at the Socialist headquarters in the evening and the threatening attitude of the crowd caused the meeting to be called off. Mayor Filbert addressed the crowd and counseled calmness. Several hundred former service men then marched past the building, the Socialists hung an American flag from a window and the crowd dispersed. Tucker was taken away in a motor car by the Socialist committee during the night. Jn an advertisement the American Ameri-can Legion today thanked patriotic citizens citi-zens for answering yesterday's call to make Reading 100 per cent American. The advertisement terminates with this sentence: "We may need you again soon."