The Archive · 1930

THE ANTI-COMMUNIST BANANA

Chicago, Feb, 21, Two hundred men and women who declared themselves to be Communists today attempted to march in from Chicago's West Side along Madison street to the Chicago City: Hall Police had received previous information and had armed themselves banana stalks and wooden paddies, designed to inflict a maximum of painful but harmless punishment. When they began to apply these weapons the paraders promptly dispersed. were arrested by police, including two young women leaders in the parade—United Press,

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