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Faces Ten Years In Prison For Staging Bank Run Wednesday Night's Gathering Will Seek Aid for Radical Orator, Now Confined to Hartford County JailGreen Street Hall Secured for Demonstration Nat Richards, the youthful radical, who led Communist demonstration in front of the municipal *building here on March 6, and who succeeeded in winning over the local police in his fight for freedom of speech, now faces year term state's prison. He is being detained in the Hartford county jail. To obtain funds to contest the charges and save him from immass meeting will be held evening in Vente on Green street. The meeting will be held under the auspices of International Labor Defense any two prominent speakers have been "advertised. One of the scheduled orators of the session will be Guido Serio, who at liberty on ball and faces deItaly: Circulars claim that he will be executed if he turned to that country. So the meeting will be held for Serio and after being arrested here several times for making or rather attempting to make speeches on the street and once in front of the East Main street entrance to the Scovill Manufacturing company outwitted the police morning by standing in the of building on est Main street and addressing employes of the American Brass company The police handicapped him breaking up his audience and keepIng the men moving, but they couldnot touch Richards, He was on private property. result of this little quick thinking the authorities gave the matter some serious consideration and a compromise was reached whereby Communists won the right to speak the Soldiers' monument. Richards was recently arrested for attempting to start "run" on New Britain bank. It was the "Interest' of his labor movement, It was claimed.