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“Socialists Broke Before Police On Fletcher’s Field,” Montreal Gazette. June 2, 1919. Page 04. --- A Hundred Policeman Wielded Batons Aiding Mounted Men Clearing Grounds --- One Arrest Was Made --- Woman Persisted In Attempting To Speak - Crowds Were Driven To Park Avenue --- Squads of police officers charging through the park, with mounted officers aiding their efforts by dashing into groups of people who were slow in moving around united to form a spirited scene on the slopes of Mount Reval yesterday afternoon. It was an afternoon of wild excitement, with the determing hand of the police well shown up.

The persistence of a Socialist group in Montreal to endeavor to hold a meeting against the orders of the civic authorities was responsible for the clash.

Over a hundred policemen under the orders of Inspector Roberts and Captains Tom Holland and Gagnon, handled a mob of Socialists of about a thousand with an ease and speed that bespoke good discipline. There was never a chance for resistance of any serious kind, and those who made half-hearted attempts to fight back were shoved forward vigorously. The unfortunate feature of the affair was that the picnic crowds who gathered each Sunday under the trees had also to be driven out for when the Socialists were broken up and driven in all directions they took refuge under the trees, and in order to clear them out it was necessary that everyone be driven away. However, after the excitement had died down these people were allowed to come back and resume their interrupted picnics. Under the circumstances the police acted as mildly as possible, and the lack of casualties were proof of the fact.

Mrs. Ray Press Mendelsoohn, one of the active workers of the Socialist group, was arrested and taken to headquarters. She had attempted to speak, when ordered not to do so, and several policemen took her into Sergeant Dettmer’s house on the field and her there until the patrol waggon came. She was then driven to headquarters with several mounted men as an escort and two motor cycle side cars. No attempt at rescue was made.

This is not the first meeting on Mount Royal Park that Mrs. Mendelsohn has attempted to address. A meeting had been called for May 10th to protest against the police activities on May 1st. Mrs. Mendelsohn mounted the bandstand and was proceeding to address the crowd when Sergeant Dettmers stopped her, and dispersed the crowd without any trouble. August Classens, of New York, was to have spoken at that meeting.

Mrs. Mendelsohn was formally charged with troubling the peace. She was released on bail of $25 to appear before the Recorder this morning.

WANTED FREE SPEECH ‘I am a citizen of Montreal, and I want free speech,’ was the refrain of Mrs. Mendelsohn as she moved about the field until the police tired of the too oft-repeated opinion and took charge of her. She was well treated by the police, and allowed to talk as much as she wished when in custody, and made no attempt to escape, getting quietly into the patrol waggon when it barked up.

The Socialist meeting had been advertised by means of a circular signed ‘Social Democratic Party of Canada, Propaganda Committee.’ The pamphlet denounced the police among other institutions.

Several would-be male orators at 3 o’clock mounted the bandstand near the incline railway, and had commenced to speak when Capt. Tom Holland, of No. 12 and 20 police stations, took a hand in the game, and told them they could not speak there, as they had no permit, and it would be advisable for them to depart at once. They took the hint and left. This, however, did not end the matter. Mrs. Mendelsohn and several others tried to make speeches, and an attempt was made by Mrs. Mendelsohn to speak from the verandah of Sergeant Dettmers’ house. The sergeant stopped that as gently as possible, and with Capt. Holland endeavored to break up the assembly. A great crowd had gathered by this time, however, coming from various directions, and Capt. Holland telephoned for the 100 reserves who had been kept at No. 12 station for this emergency. They arrived, and Inspector Robert preceded to clear the grounds. The police broke up into squads of half a dozen, ten or 20 under charge of officers and scattered all groups. They did not wait for arguments, telling everyone to move on, and people were driven about with expedition. As far as could be seen here no clubs were used, the policemen using their hands for the most part, and with those who were obdurate their fists. The ‘push’ system was quite effective, and members of the gathering were sent sprawling when they when they refused to move fast enough.

A Constable Hurt. Several of the policemen were struck, and one, Constable Blanchet, of No 13 station, became a casualty. He was struck across the mouth with an umbrella, and his lower lip cut. First aid was given him at Sergeant Dettmers’ house, and he did not appear to be much the worse for his experience. There was a crowd around him at the time, and it was impossible to detect who had hit him, but the opinion of his comrades was that he had fallen victim to one of the female agitators, of whom they were quite a number.

At 3.00, when the crowd had been fairly well broken up and sent flying in different directions, the police decided the only way to bring matters to a head was to clear the entire slope, and this they did in rapid fashion. Squads went dashing through under the trees and moved everyone down to Park avenue. Mounted policemen, of whom there were seven, under charge of Sergeant Gregory, shepherded them on their way and in a short time there was a big crowd concentrated at the sidewalk just north of the elevated railway. Many of them dashed over to get street cars and drive away from the scene of danger, and the most of them were driven across the street and over the car tracks to the field on the east side, just north of Duluth avenue. Here the police charged them and broke them into half a dozen groups, sending some running along Duluth avenue, others northward across the field to Rachel street.

There was a moment of resistance here, as the crowd stiffened somewhat, and police batons into play for a moment or two, the police striking across the arms and shoulders, or shoving with their hands and fists. It looked like fast stick play. At 4 o’clock it was all over, and the police came back and rested under the trees. Gradually the women and children and the peaceably inclined people who had not come to the field to hear the meeting, but for a Sunday rest, drifted back to their deserted benches, and an air of calm reigned once more. Within a few minutes after 4 o’clock, Inspector Robert decided that everything was over and the police were lined up and dismissed.

Considering the excitement that reigned, it was remarkable that there was no hospital cases. Had the police arrived in smaller force, it is generally admitted that fighting would have resulted in earnest and with one result, broken heads and more arrests, but the large number of police showed the futility of any attempt at real resistance and the police because of their strength were able to use fairly mild measures.

Mounted Police Active. The work of the mounted police was especially effective. Charging their horses into groups they broke them one way, and they would then turn and drive them around and away from other groups. It was spectacular. Horses would dash forward and then be backed up, or swung around, and nothing could stand against them.

The police had plenty of opportunity of making arrests of little knots of men who argued with the policemen, but the latter themselves with shoving them on. There were funny incidents when looked on from a safe place, or from the protection of being at a police officer’s side. Getting into the crowds for local color was somewhat arduous, as a newspaper man found. One who was wandering about taking in the scene was suddenly sent sprawling onto the gravel walk, when an athletic policeman, who was charging down with half a dozen comrades, save one fellow who objected to moving rapidly a above so strong that he collided with the newspaper man, and the latter suffered the worst of the collision.

One policeman, a husky young one, found that a group had persisted into staying around the bandstand when the order had gone forth that everyone was to leave the field. He charged into the group vigorously, without, however, using his club and grabbing one of the most objectionable looking fellows, who was waving his hands and denouncing the police gave him a push that sent him a hundred yards down the slope. ‘Leave him alone, leave him alone.’ shouted one of the others. The policeman promptly handed him the same treatment, and then chased the whole group to Park avenue.

It was not a case of walking out of the way when a squad of police appeared and they seemed to be everywhere, but of moving as fast as the policemen moved, and the latter moved on the run, so it was succession of constantly moving scenes that would have delighted a moving picture photographer.

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Funk futureheads Love in Stockholm brought their seven-piece battalion unit to Brooklyn's Public Assembly on Wednesday, 7/29. Frontman Charlie Rockwell spit tales of Allston (every Bostonian's beloved oasis of dive bars, bed bugs, and red solo cup debri), and made tributes to the middle east with a cover of Outkast's "Bombs Over Baghdad." Keep an eye peeled for LIS's siege of all corners of the northeast.

Tour dates and album info available at http://www.myspace.com/loveinstockholm -- peep that bidniz!

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