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Show I uu Says Attack on Socialists Was "Pure Rowdyism" NEW YORK. Nov. 26. The demonstration demon-stration of soldiers, sailors and marines ma-rines against the red flag at the Socialist So-cialist meeting at Madison square garden gar-den last night -was characterized as "rowdyism" today by Police Commissioner Commis-sioner Enright. Tho police, he said, wero reluctant to interfere with men in uniform but such disorder as v.-as 'committed 'com-mitted last night when the service men attacked red emblem wearers and attempted at-tempted to break through the police into the garden, would not be tolerated. . After remarking that he had made a report tq. Mayor Hylau on the affair, tho police commissioner said: "If men in uniform would mind their own business and act In, an orderly manner the police department can handle han-dle the rest. The police can candle citizens but they do not like to have sailors or soldiers interfere. They don't like to do anything to a man in uniform. uni-form. "Wo tried to get the provost marshal last night to send somo men to Madison Madi-son square garden to handle the soldiers, sol-diers, but if they arrived -we did not see them. If their rowdyism continues something will have to be done with them." Tho commissioner added that ho understood un-derstood the Socialists wero going to 1 discard the red flax for a blue one. |