Show 1 f h Most Most Reds Reds' in New NewYork NewY York Y ork Riot Merely t Out for Thrill Citizens Looking Y ot Innocent cent Spectators Bearr BearA Bear A i r Brunt of Police Vio- Vio 1 c n nee c c B By Y PAUL PAUL HARR HARRISON N N NEA EA Service Writer NEW NEW YORK March 12 On 13 On tho thoth th theory ory that when a 3 crowd ro of or thirty thirty- Jive tho to forty thousand gathers whether It il bo designated ns as communists com- com or something else this crowd must after all b bo be composed of oC human beings whose e person person- personalities and reactions might be he studied t beneath tho the cloak of or the mass label given them this correspondent corre- corre mingled with the time crowd during the communist demonstration tion and riot in Union square Thursday an and this Is what he found Jound 1 The Tho vast enthusiasm for tor tlc de- of oC this and amI that and everything C was centered in the handful oC of leaders such as William WilliamG L. L G Foster Fostel not noL in ht the crowd 2 Most 1 of oC tho the real mass of oC men and women apparently came cameto cameto to watch the show short not noL necessarily arlly to participate 3 3 The denunciatory speeches 1 drew rew scant attention except from the communist t claque gathered al about the time stands 4 Th The ThC police commissioner had hadgi gi given ren the the- speakers f un until III 3 o'clock to conclude the tho demonstration But for fOl- lh mho tho action of or tho rho handful of oC leaders In hi Insisting upon starting a match march down Broadway tho crowd nl Would probably have hare drifted away ay before that lint time lute 5 But for or the showmanship of or ortho tho the leaders leader's in staging the demon demon- It would have ha fallen tallen com COIn completely flat Jat More than a score of oC men beside whom I 1 stood too In Ira various sections of oC that thal square were asked J If thc they Were Jobless 11 ell no I came to see cc the fun tun was the answer of oC most of at them A couple of or surly neds advised ad me to beat brat It Il before I sot hot my roof cracked Three ad- ad n ad admitted thc they were unemployed One said Bald But were we're hero here because we tee aint got sot nowhere else to go so We 0 know 1 this and aint gonna put no grub rub in our bellies When William W lIlam Z Foster once tho the communist candidate for tor the presidency mounted the center platform lla the kaleidoscope of or red and white l banners and mill milling InS InS' al almost almost almost al- al most ga gay people was stilled instantly in instantly In- In tense The reels reds within hound o of his cheered his hisa a that w we c must fight or Thc They whooped when he demanded a soviet let government g for forth forthe Ol th the United States Stales and md when he rind five comrades went to Police Commissioner Whalen and demanded demanded de de- man ed a permit to march to city hall Ten minutes later Foster Fosler emerged from tho the little green shied shed which served as field Held headquarters forthe for tor forthe the police lie Ile mounted the speakers speakers' speakers speakers' speak speak- ers ers' IS stand Foster did not recount t tho the conversation with tho timo commis commis- Ho Ito did not S say that the official had bad offered to escort him and his committee to cH city hall where Ja Mayor or Walker alker was waiting waiting- and willing to give Ivo them hem audience in jn their theil ostensible demand for work wor or wages wag Foster did diU not explain to the crowd rowel that he had Indignantly refused re refUsed re- re fused this offer declaring that all an of cr those workers outside were his comrades and that they must go too Instead he shouted has forbidden us to march maleh Do the workers accept that de decision de- de cislon No Xo we will march to ell city hall Foster told lold this correspondent ent Inan in nn an Interview the other da day that these o demonstrations were the only means b by which tho the political mes- mes ilage Hae of tho the communists could l be e placed before the workers worl and un un- employed Ho lie claimed they did not seek to provoke 01 violence but that when hen It canto camo they welcomed it as proof of oC the tho outrageous Intolerance In Intolerance toler- toler ance of or social fascism which is Strikingly I demonstrated tel The fhe red leaders had timed limed their demonstration well for thousands 5 of or persons person pouring out of offices for then their lunch hour were attracted attract attract- ed cd to the tho spectacle and then lien held Immobile b by police lines and the force of oC their own numbers Adol Adol- Adolescents ol- ol c milled through h the thc thron throng Impatient eager cager 0 for excitement But Hut the character of oC tho the crowl crowd croud chan changed e 1 as one pushed his way ny wa to I any o of the Ule five speakers ers stands land Hero were tho time real radicals and the real leaders arguing al excitedly making plans assigning offering offering- suggestions Iu for the crisis which each cacti Inc knew t would come at the en end cud of oC r t e a meeting Another l c evidence ence of or clever CI show show- Inan manship was ryas the startling differ differ- difference ence ilee in n appearance of or the communist communist on the speakers speaker's stand bland and the communist on the time ground To anyone any ou one n near ar tho the ringleaders it was apparent apparent ap ap- parent that shabby b cloth clothing in is tho the prescribed uniform for the red ora- ora tor although th the comrades surrounding sur- sur rounding him may give 1 every cry outward out out- ward show of oC affluence I saw v one man remove e his collar collar collar col col- lar and tic an and disarrange his polished pol pol- 01 hair beIJ before mounting the time platform for tor hi hh his share of or the spellbinding spell spell- 1 binding Indin |