The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-10
SCUFFLE FOR MEAL TICKETS
UNEMPLOYED" SHOW A LIVELY
INTEREST IN FOOD.

UNEMPLOYED" SHOW A LIVELY
INTEREST IN rood.
The Convention winds Up with q CospeF
Union Meettng at which seeialiss
speeches Arc Madeleine Peliee Pro-
vent IN Unauthorized street Parade.
The National Committee for the Relief
Of the Unemployed, which was in oonven.
ZION the greater part Of last week In Man.
haitian Lyoeum, 90 East Fourth street,
wound up yesterday with . mass meeting
in Cooper Union at which the ball wal
about two-thirds filed.
Before the mass meeting took place
q demonstration under the auspices OF
the unemployed committee took place
At Rutgers Square. where II had beon an
pounced that tickets goodfor one meal
would be given out to tho unemployed. The
demonstration took place at noon about
four hundred people attending. ]. H.
Esds Bow, chairman Of the committee,
began to give out the meal tickets and was
uoncesurrounded BY a mob Of East Siders
Who had nothing to do with tho original
unemployed committee. They grabbed
for the tickets, and Chairman How In
spite Of his pSotssts was nearly. thrown
ID his feet in the rush..
A number Of tickets were secured by
the East siders, while others who did not
secure them began to scufie for their
possession. Two East Side youths fell
and rolled over and over In the street,
Chairman How finally separating them.
The unemployed people were then di.
rooted TO fall In line for . parade to Cooper
Union. Policeman Patrick Haun Of
the Madison street station happened 10
come along and asked Chairman How
to show his permit. Chairman How had
ncne, sndasthe crowd seemed determined
to parade anyway the policeman tele-
phoned for assistance. Several police
men responded and dispersed the crowd.
Those with meal tickets vent to a restau-
rant on Third avenue where they were re-
deemed.
Chairman How presided at the Cooper
Union meeting and announced that his
committee was going to put a stop TO the
bread line in New York by taking meas
ures to procure employment for those
who needed it. II every one were en-
ployed, he said, there would be no bread
line. and it wal the mission Of his CON-
mittee to see that measures were takea
TO provide employment.
The first speaker was a mar from Gin
cinnati named Gillespie, who said that
the Cincinnati branch OF the committee
had broken up the bread line. He said
he had been thinking all the week on
what he was going to say at the meeting
and In the next breath he said he did not
know until he came to New York yester-
day that he VA going to be asked to
tpeak, He aho said that 1900 people in
Cincinnati who wore out Of work had OBJ
tanned jobs. He was going to see Mr..
Taft and AK what was going to be done
with the great number Of men and women
who we're out Of work.
Mrs. Durkis followed and said that the
principal thing had to study now VAS tho
ethics Of the religion Of humanity. The
Rev. John d. Long. secretary Of the
Christian Socialist Fellowship. said that
there was no religion or ethics in any
system that meant the Unemployment of
men.
The real business Of religion" he said,
is to give as many men as possible q job
and enough compensation for that job
TO live on. Other religions are not Chris
tianity. Christ established the first bread
line when He wsnt into the wilderness
followed by a sort Of Coxey's army. the
men and women In which were starving.
and fed them with loaves and fshes.
Early Christianity was q vast proletarian
movement TO uplift the masses and fight
mammon. Some people say We are be-
ginning to So tho downfall Of capitalism
and that the vast army Of unemployed
makes it inevitabIe. There is nothing
inevitable. but ths remedy is In your hands
il you keep on working. Let tho people
own the trusts. Let the corporation Of
humanity " all the corporations for the
benefit OF humanity and abolish poverty
by abolishing the profit system.'
Several speeches were made which the
Rev. Alexander Irvine. who vas present
and made q speech, objected to a. too
radical. Resolutions were passed TO the
effect that 1t vas the sense Of the meeting
that the revofutionixing Of tho present
tocial system by agitation and perststsnt
effort was the best means OF putting an
end to UNEMPLOYMENT.