The demonstration took place one week after a march by 2,500 Chinatown residents protesting the arrest and beating of Peter Yew on April 26.

Yew had objected to the mistreatment by police of a Chinese motorist involved in a traffic argument with a white man. Police responded by beating Yew and dragging him to the police station, where he was stripped and beaten again.

At a May 13 court hearing, attended by 300 of Yew's supporters, the original charges of felonious assault and obstructing governmental administration were reduced to misdemeanor charges. Trial is set for June 3.

The incident has sparked a protest movement aimed not just at Yew's case and the police brutality it represents, but also at discrimination faced by Chinese-Americans in all spheres of life.

At one point the protesters passed a city correctional institutions bus filled with Black prisoners. The prisoners banged on the side of the bus in solidarity and shouted, "Chinese power! Chinese power!"  
 
May 29, 1950
Washington is still using economic extortion and pressure on Yugoslavia in an effort to wrest political concessions from the Tito regime and force it to support Western imperialism in the "cold war," it was revealed last week. This United States economic squeeze amounts to a hidden blockade paralleling the open one imposed by the Kremlin. It has been greatly intensified since Tito declared last February that the Yugoslavs would rather "go naked" than abandon their socialist principles and support the imperialist bloc.

Loans promised to Yugoslavia by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which is controlled by financially all-powerful U.S. capitalism, are being held up on the pretext that the revolutionary government must first agree to pay the debts owed by the old monarchist regime to private international bankers.

The facts about this move instigated by U.S. State Department were revealed by the well-informed Washington columnist, Robert S. Allen in the May 18 N.Y. Post.

These "international bankers," says Allen, "are demanding settlements on musty deals, some dating back to early 1900, before the World Bank grants Yugoslavia a $25,000,000 loan it is seeking in order to resist Russia."  
 
 
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