Arrest Committee Aiding Prisoners

Arrest Committee Aiding Prisoners 14 Camden Poles Seek Release of Fellow Countrymen Admitted to Be Bolshevists To enter a protest against the arrest of two of their countrymen who were locked up on a charge of inciting to riot, fourteen Poles, sons of Poland, walked into police headquarters in Camden yesterday afternoon and were also placed under arrest. Policeman Frank Clements arrested Joseph Sukufonitz, 29 years old, and Michael Sukufonitz, 40 years old, brothers, of 535 Viola street, Camden, on charges of inciting to riot. The policeman said the two men had interfered with a street meeting at Sixth and Viola streets in such a manner that it looked as though there would be a riot. It was while the officer was explaining the object of the arrests that the fourteen men came marching into the police room. As the spokesman started to explain the object of the meeting, declaring that the speakers were representing the Bolsheviki adherents in Russia, Policeman Clements locked the door and said: "Lock these men up, too. They were at the meeting and were disorderly." Policeman Anthony Meilock was sent for to act as interpreter. He learned that the speakers at the meeting were pleading for the people to join the Bolsheviki and told them if they did so they "would not have to work." The interpreter said: "The wives of several of these men heard the speakers and said to their husbands, 'Why don't you join the Bolsheviki and you won't have to work?' That made them angry, he said, and they entered a protest against any further speechmaking. The men were then released on security and the police were instructed to locate the speakers at the meeting and summon them to appear in the police court today.