The red network; a "who's who" and handbook of radicalism for patriots ([c1934])

"News' 9 39 The first of these was an A. C. L. U. meeting held in Tittle's Evanston M. E. Church and addressed by Carl Haessler, a teacher and official of the Communist Party's school of revolution at 2822 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, and a fellow A. C. L. U. committee member with Dr. Tittle. Haessler ended his talk with a little story illustrating the A. C. L. U. viewpoint, frankly say- ing "And so what we want is not more liberty but more licenser'' On the Church bulletin board hung an announcement of Communist Scott Nearing's lectures. Tittle attended this meeting. Inside the door of the church at the close of the meeting a Communist handed out leaflets reading: "A Lecture of Vital Importance!—by Romania Ferguson who recently returned from the Lenin Institute of Moscow. On Tuesday, January 17th, 8 P. M., at The Unitarian Church of Evanston—Fight for the freedom of the Scottsboro boys! Join with the International Labor Defense! Auspices: International Labor Defense, Scottsboro Branch of Evanston." The patriotic crowd who had attended this A. C. L. U. meeting out of curiosity, indulged afterwards in some arguments on the church lawn with Red sympathizers, among them Catherine Waugh McCulloch of the A. C. L. U., who had presided at the meeting. But this would not have merited publicity, only that a young Red who intruded himself into the conversation I was holding with friends attempted to slap my face when I contradicted him, and he was chased by my husband and some Legionnaires. The attempted but unsuccessful slap was news! At the announced communist I. L. D. meeting which followed, the Reds were prepared to defend themselves against any patriotic utterances. Police were stationed inside the Unitarian Church. And one menacing looking Negro in front of us pulled out his gun and looked it over before returning it to his pocket. Others had bulging pockets. A colored woman as officer of this I. L. D. branch announced that regular meetings were held in this Unitarian Church every first and third Tuesday of the month; also that all of the 18 north side branches of the I. L. D. were expected to participate in a Communist demonstration to be held before the Japanese consulate in Chi- cago the following week as a protest against Japan's war against the Chinese Soviets and Chinese revolution. When this demonstration actually took place, an army of steel-helmeted policemen was required to disperse the surging crowds of Red rioters which formed and reformed to advance on the building. Several policemen were injured and one without a steel helmet had his skull fractured by Communists. Romania Ferguson, the colored girl advertised as speaker for this I. L. D. meeting, who had been trained at Moscow's Institute for Red agitators from all countries, was then teaching with Haessler (speaker in Tittle's church) at the Communist Chicago school of revolution. She spoke of the Scottsboro case and then contrasted the wonderful life and race relations of Soviet Russia, and said that the only way for the 12,000,000 colored people in the United States to obtain a similar "paradise" was to unite with the white Communist "workers" in the "revolutionary way out" and set up a Soviet government in the United States as the Russians had done. (Pure sedition and in direct violation of the Illinois sedition law). She was followed by Albert Goldman, fellow teacher with herself and