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‘ . . $petitions. “Jostead of putting these guys in jail.” declared : Oh Aug 2 jn New York Ory the campaign of violenoe 4 hey ‘A rally sponsored by the National Labor Peace Coo- ference bad been scheduled for that afternoon in Union Square; but Mayor O'Dwyer bad arbitrarily refused to | grant a permit for the assembly. To protest the ban and demonstrate their desire for peace, thousands of New Yorkers gathered quietly along the streets bordering the Square at the time sect for the meeting. The Square itself was ringed by more than a thousand uniformed police officers, mounted policemen, radio-car patrolmen and — Suddenly, and without waming. the police charged into the crowd. Flailing right and left with their riot sticks, they savagely beat men and women to the ground. Mounted police spurred their horses onto the sidewalks, riding 7 people down, indiscriminately clubbing demonstrators and . . ; onlookers. Describing the scene, Sid Kline later reported — to the New York Daily Compass: I beard beaten men groan with pain, and saw them kicked peain before the sound of their cries had vanished. of other women driven n near to hysteria by what they saw happer to others whom they did not know—but who were human beings. Scores were seriously injured . .