New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-06
Another Agitator Also
Captured-Is Defiant
i'm Courtroom.
TANNENBAUM FREED
IN $500 BAIL
Berkman Plans to Organize All
Unemployed-Many Kept in
Cells After Raid.

Developments were rapid last night
! in the unemployed situation with
which the police have been called upon
10 cope. Following the arrest OF 100
men OF me /. w. w. for breaking into
church Wednesday night. the police
last evening broke up two meetings IN
Rutgers Square and arrested Theodore
Freeman and Darwia j. Meserole on
charges of speaking in public without
permits and refusing TO move on when
ordered.
Alexander Berkman, the anarchist.
made arrangements to organize ali The
unemployed OF the city and TO nold
nightly meetings in Rutgers square
and march on the churches az here
tofore.
Frank Tannenbaum. the young L. v.
W. leader. was released on bail 0f 81
800 furnished by the Southwestern
Surety Insurance Company, and VIII
be given a hearing at = o'clock this
afternoon.
Theodore Freeman. who was ar
rested in Rutgers Square, is an In
dustrial Workers of the World agl.a-
tor and Darwin J. Meserole is a
prominent Brooklyn lawyer. The men
were arraigned In the mems night
court. Freeman. yas found guilty ana
fined So. whichr - was Unable to--fsfysf'
Meserole who says he is a personal
friend OF Theodore Roosevelt, was dis
charged by Magistrate Ten Eyck
Offer to Pay Fine Refused.
After his discharge Meserole went TO
Freeman and offered to pay his fine.
but Freeman declared that he was not
guilty and would not accept it. He
was taken to the Madison street police
station and will probably serve three
days in lieu of paying the fine.
Freeman was taken into custody at
about $50 O'Clock. He had been stroll
ing through Seward Park, button
holing men and exhorting them To
gather at the end Of the square He
was told TO move on by the police, but
gave no heed. Gathering a crowd
around him at one end of the square,
he mounted a bench and began 10
harangue the men.
"In France they had 10 start rev
oIution 10 give the people their rights"
he declared. "and that is what VIII
happen here. What right had the po-
lice to arrest all those men last night
They went to a church 10 get food and
shelter: where else could they goT
patrolman Jacob Kolsin here inter
rupted the speaker and told him TO
omit. When he refused he was placed
under arrest and taken to the Madi-
son street station and later TO the
night court.
lie stated that he was twenty-three.
a waiter Russian, and that he had no
home. He had only seven cents on his
person
Meserole. who lives at No. 4s3 Wash
ington avenue, Brooklyn, appeared in
Rutgers Square at about o'clock and
began speaking to the ioungers private
". Lieutenant McAuliffe gave him
wa rning. but Meserole stated that he
was merely asking the men to attend
a meeting at Cooper Union. and asked
permission to make a speech.
McAulffe telephoned Headquarters
and returned with the information that
Meserole would be permitted TO speak
II he confined himself TO the subject
mentioned.
When Mcserole mounted the plat
form, however he launched into A crit
icsm OF the police for their handling
Of The J. ". ". situation. and brought
In mention OF the unemployed.
At the word unemployed" McAuliffe
leapcd up beside Meserole and told him
to quit speaking. Meserole refused and
was placed under arrest.
Alexander Berkman, in the confer
ence at the Francisco Ferrer school,
a soclalistic institution. declared that
the city would be canvassed and the
gathered together. They
will meet nightly In Rutgers Square
and will then proceed TO a hall that
will be hired Tor the purpose. Ihcre
addresses will be made by prominent
socialists and anarchists and the men
will then proceed to storm one of the
churches.
Tannenbaum who was arrested with
his followers in the Roman Catholic
Church {. 81. Alphonsus "Wednesday
evening. was irraigned in jefferson
Market Court yesterday afternoon and
remanded for hearing to-day. Ills
bail was raised from 5000 10 5000.
which amount was later secured.
His IS9 followers, and the woman.
Glissie Miller, all OF whom We're seized
in the raid. were taken to the chisf