The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-13
SOCIAL WORKERS ON
CRUSADE ARRESTED
Miss Elizabeth butcher and a
Columbia Student Charged
With Blocking Traffic.
ARE MARCHED UP AVENUE
Trouble Follows an Attempt to
Address Employees Of Large
Department Store.

Miss Elizabeth butcher. suffrasist and
social worker. and Paul Howard Douglas,
a student In Columbia University. were
arrested In Forty-thlrd street near Sixth
avenue last night after they had at
tempted to hold a meeting 10 improve the
condition OF the employees of a depart
ment store there.
Miss butcher. who liz the daughter OF
George q. butcher. a lawyer. is a Vassar
graduate and lives at 20 Pierrepont street.
Brooklyn. She testified before the Senate
committee investigating factory legisla-
ton In 1912 and was a candidate for
Alderman on the Socialist ticket in 1911.
The police version of the trouble Is that
Miss butcher and Douglas drove up to
the employees entrance to the store In an
automobile just before & o'clock. With
them were Miss Hlldeeaarde Kneeland.
Mrs. Frank Cathern. Mrs. Herbert ~
Warbasse. wife OF a lawyer. Of 3s6 Wash
ington avenue. Brooklyn: Mrs. James =.
warbasso the wife of a member OF the
Municipal Civil Service Commission, Of
3si Washington avenue, Brooklyn, and
Miss Sarah Parks.
When the machine stopped Douglas say
the police. got VI and began to speak to
the girls coming out OF the store. The
street became damned in moment.
Sergt Smyth says he asked the party to
move and Miss butcher who was on the
sidewalk. showed permit from Police
Commissioner Woods TO hold street meet
ings.
Smyth held that the permit did not give
them permission to block traffic and got
two other policemen TO help him make a
lane on the sidewalk between the auto
mobile and the building. In doing SO. he
says. he showed against Miss Dy,cher who
told him to be aareful. After an argu-
ment he arrested her. Then Douglas
jumped down and pushed Smyth and was
arrested also.
They were taken 10 the police station.
walking up Fifth avenue to Flfty-frst
street. and as the avenue was crowded
their progress caused excitement. They
were bailed on; by Mrs. James Warbassc.
who gave her home In Brooklyn as Sc
curity.
shsHN pdRNH'i 1T bFa HpH't Aa>N liEHt
characterized the arrest az an outrage.
She said that when the party reached the
rear OF the store the entrance was closed.
and. suppOsing the management had told
the employees to go out the front doors.
the automobile with the others In the party
drove around there while she stayed in
Forty-third street. While she was stand
ing there "A sergeant told her to move ON.
When | refused ne took me By the
arm and jostled me TO SiAth avenue" said
Miss butcher ~ asked for his number
and he arrested me. Just then the auto
mobile came around the corner and when
NJ. Douglas protested against my arrest
ne was arrested also. ! shall seek redress
after We are arraigned Tomorrow morning g
Miss Parks who lives at 2,0 West
Fourth street. admitted last night that
the street was damned by the meeting.
although she SAID iho action OF the police
was incxcusahlc She said the organi-
cation conducting these store invcstiga-
lions and meetings Is tn" Union for Retail
Clerks. OF which Miss Mary Sanford il
president. Miss butcher Il treasurer
The organization has had trouble before
at another large department store In Sixth
avenue.