United States:
The
unemployed, spurred on in many cases by communist organizers, riot or
demonstrate in various parts of the country.
In Los Angeles, an estimated 3,000 people march on city hall, bearing
banners reading “down with the police” and “forever the worker,” and wielding
homemade tear gas bombs. They are
charged and dispersed by 300 police, and 27 are arrested. In Chicago, several hundred people attending
a communist meeting at Musicians’ Hall are encircled by police, allowed to give
speeches and distribute communist literature, part of which attempts to incite
a march of the unemployed -- then the police arrest every one of them. A similar demonstration in Seattle is also
broken up by police, with 11 arrested, and in Boston, where 9 are arrested
after a strike called by the communist faction of the garment workers
union. The banners in Seattle read “down
with capitalism” and “work for wages,” and handbills are signed by the
Communist Party of the United States.
The handbills urge unemployed people to join a worldwide demonstration
against capitalism. Several hundred alleged
communists also parade down Wall Street in New York.
Elsewhere:
Leningrad: Police
arrest Rabbi Lazerev, Chief Rabbi of Leningrad, and his colleague Rabbi
Yasnogorowski, charging them with illegal connections abroad.
Berlin: Paul
Moldenhauer, Minister of Finance, proposes doubling the gasoline tax (called
“benzine” in Germany) to 12 cents a gallon, and increasing the beer tax 75%, in
hopes of raising the equivalent of US$110 million to help Germany’s budget
deficit.
Paris: Andre Tardieu,
former Prime Minister, agrees to return to the post after Camille Chautemps’
cabinet fell on its first vote in parliament.
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