Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-02-17 | Page 5 | Red, Socialist Groups Battle

RED SOCIALIST GROUPS BATTLE I U I I One Man Stabbed 12 Hurt ii in Bitter Fight at Madison Square Carden Garden NEW YORK Feb 17 Sodalists P a md nd communists meeting at Madison Square S quare Garden to protest against atrocities at r of Austrian fascism engaged I in n ll one of the bitterest battles that h home ome of pugilism has ever seen The m meeting eting sponsored by trade u nion union and socialist organizations late Friday afternoon became a bedlam s after it was called to order when about communists among t the he le crowd of ot which jammed t he the building tried to take charge Three women and nine men were beaten eaten or struck by chairs and one man was stabbed in the back Seven o of f the injured were taken to a hospital hos hos- pital Ital for treatment The fighting lighting started shortly after aUer Algernon Lee director of the Rand School of Social Research had Introduced Intro Intro- d Charles CharIt Solomon socialist can can- dictate for mayor last fall Catcalls b boos KJOS oos and shouting had interrupted Lee but Solomons Solomon's statement We p plead lead for unity of socialists socialist and social r revolutIonaries together was the signal sig sig- n nal al for a free for In the north box boxes two communists l ost loSt most of ot their clothing as they hey were rere overpowered by socialists and t aken taken outside by special house police Clarence A. A Hathaway editor o of the thc Daily ally Worker communist dally daily paper was vas severely beaten by socialists when he attempted to make a speech