Attempts of non-partisan (anti-socialist) aldermen to have a special counsel appointed to prosecute radicals arrested in a demonstration during the visit of Dr. Hans Luther, German ambassador, were blocked by a veto on the part of Mayor Daniel W. Hoan yesterday.
This leaves 16 of the communists seized on disorderly conduct charges without prosecution. Cases against them will probably be dismissed by the court, as a result. The mayor in his veto message said he would defend the right of communists to hold peaceful demonstrations.
Meanwhile, a special inquiry committee appointed by the socialist party to look into the police suppression of the anti-Hitler gathering reported that the police “acted with uncalled for violence.” The committee declared further that the real blame for the incident “rests clearly on the shoulders of those who insisted on flaunting a representative of the Fascist government of Germany of Milwaukee.”
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