RADICALS: Trouble in Tampa

One night last November a detail of Tampa, Fla. police raided a committee meeting of radicals who were busy promoting "the unemployed struggle." Six agitators were carted off to headquarters, questioned, released. Thereupon a masked mob promptly picked up three of them, whisked them away to a swamp outside town, beat, tarred, feathered them. Hospitalized, one of the agitators named Shoemaker subsequently died. It was widely reported in Tampa that police had been members of the masked mob.

Since the history of the class war is studded with such affrays, most...

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