Evening star., 1914-04-05
Nine Men Arrested.

Joseph O'Carol. a youthful l. w w
leader; Adolph Wolff, a sculptor. known
as the poet of the East Side and
Joseph j. Cans, also an 1. W W. leader
The others We're school teacher, a stu
dent, merchant and unemployed men of
varying trades
Union labor. represented by the Central
Federated Union. had called the Union
Square meeting. The unions president.
Thomas ]. Curtis, during an appeal on be-
half of the copper strikers. repudiated the
/. W. w. and unemployed disturbers
saying:
Labor unionists-I mean men who
work and are willing to work-do not
countenance nor sympathze with tn.
sort of demonstrations you have wit
messed this afternoon. They do not be
lieve in seeking to accomplish their rights
by disorder nor the display of red ban
ners, but are confident that relief is tC
be found in the ballot. And through
the ballot alone will they remedy the
ills from which they are suffering
Foresta1led by Labor Men.
The city had given the Central Fed
Grated Union its right to gather. The
/. w. W. had announced its purpose of
repeating the parade held through 9Th
avenue fortnight ago. The c. F. U.
forestalled this move by obtaining a per-
nit for parade today. although the la
Dor union made no arrangements
march. The police were on hand to n :
vent the unemployed and the |. w ".
from paradins, and. besides the force of
800 men at Union Square, policemen were
stationed in clubs and churches and
hotels along 5th avenue and Madison
avenue. Police Commissioner Douglas
Mckay and several of his deputies wit
messed the rioting in Union Square.
no T. r,l- -fys
that the advertised meeting of the un-
employed had been postponed for week
but the unemployed proved the contrary
by assembling under red banners in
scribed. "Tannenbaum must be freed
This allusion was to the young l. w w
| leader, Frank Tannenbaum, recently
| sentenced to a year in the workhouse
| for participating in an unlawful assem-
| blage of the unemployed in a church.
Hemmed In by Fighting Mob.
| Cans. who carried this banner, was
| first arrested, charged with carrying il
| without permit. O'Carol's arrest pre-
! cipitated the widest disturbance Hem
| med in by a fighting mob. the police who
had O'Carol prisoner were unable to
| escape until Sheriff Gnfenhaeen ran his
| automobile into the heart OF the throng.
O'Carol and his captors leaped into the
! car and We're borne away as mounted
| officers charged and scattered the man
and woman rioters. During this inciden,
| O'Carors head was cut open. 1t was
| charged that the police dubbed him.
! XIII the CAPITALISTS and the police
| are here to persecute u.s. were yells
| that arose from the crowd as they fed
Four persons charged with using such
! language. or who refused 10 move OF
| interfered with the police. We're made
| prisoners.
| Speeches in behalf of the Michigan
| copper strikers were made by Curtis
| Joseph Cannon, vice president of the
| Western Federation of Miners. and Mrs
Cannon. The Michigan circuit court was
| attacked as antagonistic to labor III de-
| cisions relating to the strike II was
announced that the c. F. L. would hold
a banquet for the strikers, IN Labor
| Temple here. April ID.