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Show I No Armistice MAYOR DURE To Invoke police powers DORE TOFIGHT -RED MASS MEET SEATTLE, Nov. LP Mayor John F. Do re declared no armistice today in his fight to prevent the Communist party from holding an Armistice eve mass meeting In the city-owned civic auditorium tomorrow tomor-row night. The city's pudgy, red-faced chief executive reiterated his intention to prohibit the meeting there as he prepared to appear in superior court today to answer a "show cause" order brought by the Communist Com-munist party. "If the court restrains me from canceling the lease on the building, I will act under my police powers to close the -building on the ground that to hold the meeting would precipitate pre-cipitate a riot," Dore declared. "And there will be a riot if that meeting is held. I know of at least 1000 men who would be there to break up that red demonstration. As mayor, it is my duty to prevent this, and the meeting will not be held." The city council judiciary committee com-mittee declined to act after hearing Communists and non-Communists charge Dore's action was a violation viola-tion of civil liberties, the principles of the constitution and democratic government, and an abridgement of "the guaranteed rights of free assemblage, as-semblage, free speech, free press and free petition." Dore said the Electrical Workers' union and the American Legion had pledged him support, the union announcing an-nouncing it would refuse to provide lights for the meeting. |