U.S. CONGRESSMEN IN BRAWL
HELD FOR DISORDERLY CONDUCT
NEW YORK, February 15. I For several hours to-day the police were puzzled to know just what to do with United States Congressmen held for disorderly conduct. Mr Vito Marcantonio, a Liberal Republican representing one of the city's Italian districts, was cuffed and otherwise roughly treated when he attempted to lead between 10,000 and 15,000 disgruntled Federal relief workers in a demonstration for a wages increase because of the snow-covered state of the streets. A permit to parade was refused, but after a speech Mr Marcantonio shouted: "We will parade anyway." At this the police moved in, and a score or more of people, including Congressmen, received minor injuries. Mr Marcantonio and a dozen others were held for several hours until the police commissioner ordered them to be released, saying ! that he did not wish to- make I martyrs of them. The main burden of Mr Marcantonio's speech was a denunciation of % the Mayor of New York (Mr La Guardia), with whom he was formerly associated in a law office.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21709, 17 February 1936, Page 12
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