New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-07
WORDS OF CHEER
FROM TANNENBAUM
Urges Crowd to Continue
Demanding Churches
Shelter Them.
DISTURBERS TO PRISON
Two Sent Away for Thirty Days
Each-Tannenbaum Refuses
to Accept Bail.

/ Following the holding OF Frank Tan
nenbaum, the |. W. W. leader for the
grand Jury and the sentencing Of two
church invaders TO the workhouse,
prominent socialists and anarchists held
meetings OF protest last evening in
Rutgers Square and in hall at No. IL
East Broadway. At all places Mayor
Mitchell and the Police Department
came in for bitter attacks.
The men assembled in Rutgers
Square after 8 o'clock. A large detail
Of police we're on hand, under the COM
mand of Captain Walsh They accom-
PANIED the speakers and auditors TO
hall in East Broadway, but did not in
| terfere.
The meeting was In charge OF Leon
ard D. Abbott, president OF the Free
! Speech League and enc Of the most
prominent socialists I'm America. Eliz-
abeth Gurley Flynn, Lincoln Steffens,
| Alexander Berkman. Carlo Tresco,
frank Hamilton, Henry Landwtrth.
James O'CaToll and William O'Brien
also spoke.
Meet 70 Criticise Police.
The meeting was In substance crit
icism of the police handling OF the "un-
employed problem, particularly as re-
CARDS the Tannenbaum affair and the
arrests Of the two men In Rutgers
Square the previous evening for max
/ inS speeches.
"Who is this man Mitchell" demand
ed Joseph O'Carroll, an I. w. ". or
ganizer. He is merely a bellhop. DO
you know what that is? | was once
bellhop. lie jumps up when the bell Is
rung. Morgan and the rest OF them tell
him what to do and he does IL.
Nntchers grandfather fought for Just
the thing that We are fighting for now
but this despicable man is denying US
the privilege Of fightinG."
Leonard Abbott spoke in praise OF
Tannenbaum and predicted that much
good would come from the effort 70 or
ganize the unemployed.
Unemployment, said Lincoln Stef-
fens, lis a part Of the capitalist sys-
tenn. They want a large number OF
people to be kept idle so that when
then want 10 fire one OF their employees
they will find it easy to hire somebody
else 10 take HIS place. Besides. n
everybody were employed wages would
go ND. AS long IS We have the CAPT
talist system there will he unemployed
and hunger and misery and suffer
ing"
Frank Strong Hamilton. another |.
w. w. leader, delivered a vicious at.
tack on New York newspapers, stating
they had published lying reports
bout the unemployed.
William O'-;rien delivered message
from Tannenbaum urging the boys
outside" TO keep up the work Of for
ing the churches to shelter them.
4 majority Of the speeches were mad
in the open at Rutgers Square. About
2oO men listened to the addresses and
there was no demonstration.
For two hours last night sixteen de-
tectives from the Mercer street police
station. under Captain Scoble and Act
ing Captain Dunston, conducted
lonely vigil at Grace Church, 10th street
and Broadway, awaiting a mob OF
l. W. W. idlers.
Earlier in the day a committee Of
three had called at the rectory and
notified the sexton that mob would
call and il they were not admitted they
would break down the doors. The po-
lice were called in, but after waiting
from s to 10 p. m, decided that the
jobless had postponed their visit.
Tannenbaur Not Depressed.
Tannenbaum. the 7. ". ". leader VINO
led mis- men into 81. Alphonsus's Church
Wednesday night. was the reverse Of de-
pressed when Magistrate Freschi held
him Yesterday afternoon for the grand
jury.
"Of course. I am disappointed AT the re-
suit he said. but 7 am not going L.
cry about il. I don't see that com
mitted any crime. and II ! had 10 do II
over again would do exactly the same
thing.
# don't think that the evidence given
by the detectives and the reverend faith
ers this afternoon was so very much
oe,i,,st mo do yous I'm prettv sure that
when il comes 10 a trial 10y twelve men
they II never convict me OF it
Lieutenant Patrick II. Gildca was the
first witness summoned by Assistant Dis-
trict Attorney Dickinson, who questioned
him with a Wow 20 establishing the fact
that Tanncnhaum was the leader of ih'
mob that entered the church, and that H.
had been warned not to enter
Jane Ests speech Ia Rutgers Square.
IN which she said that in France there