New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-12
Mild FREE SPEECH
DISAPPOINTS CROWD
Those Who Come Prepared
to Fight Remain to Yawn
at |. w. w. Meeting.
POLICE LOOK ON AS
RIVAL FACTIONS TALK
McAdoo. Freschi and Lincoln
Steffens in Big Gallery of
Non-Combatants.


Free speech. untrammelled by even
q semblance of police interference,
reigned in Union Square yesterday.
While the meeting Of anarchists ana
w w. adherents was in progress in
one part of the square man mounted
a box a hundred feet distant and made
hitter attack on the /. W. W. and its
leaders. \ socialist speaker then
dragged his forum TO a point midway
betwean the two speakers. and for ten
minutes the three men We'd with each
other 10 get the attention of the crowd
When all the regular speakers on the
7 w w. programme had made ad-
dresses the insurgent element OF that
orpanization mounted the rostrum ana
demanded TO be heard. To cap the
climax a suffragette appeared when Tue
meetinr vas breaking up, and heiu
forth for fifteen minutes on the que'
ton of votes for women.
Five thousand persons gathered just
.ou,h If 18th ST. TO hear the oratory'
and they remained until the last spear
or had departed. at $50 o'clock hldo
or,te nolice arrangements had oeen
made IN curb any disorder. Patrolineh
and plainclothes men thronged the
SQUARE. and many others we're con
ceaIed in nearby buildings and IN 'he
s,,hOav station at 18th ST. and Fourth
ave All Of the speeches were taken
down BY police stenographers. CiieI
Inspector Schmittberger and Inspectors
Faurot and Cahalane were IN charse'
From time TO time a few banners
,.oro =, evidence. and a diversion was
created when a man carrying one VI
than, etarted for Broadway ana Was
brought back by the police. The pan
mrs read. I'VE Want the EARTH. w.
W." I'VE Mean Business.-L W. W.
and "One Big Union-L ". w. Later
in the afternoon banner maFAeu
Take and Hold W. w" was raised
roar tho speakers stand, but Alexan-
der Berkman ordered 1t put 90" Il.
cards marked Bread or Revolutions
,,ora worn in the hatbands of the l.
w ". men.
Arthur Caron was addressing INC
gathering when the anti-L w. W. SELL
timent broke out. Frank Urban some
times known as Frank Urbansky' VINO
,oe served prison terms in Charleston
and Boston. mounted a box not lar
ero,, Caron. and in a few minutes had
nearly half the crowd around him'
"I used TO be an anarchist and So
cialist" he said, but / know no" thdt
there is nothing in it. You have oeeh
over there listening to lot of foreign
ers telling YOU how 10 run your coun-
trv. If they don't like this country
they should be given a ticket 70 go
back.
These I. w. ". men arc nothing put
hums-they admit they are ouns'
Alexander Berkman and Emma Cold
man and the rest take advantage Oh
the ignorance and credulity OF these
neople to earn a good living off them.
pull him down! Knock him off the
hov,p cried an |. w. W. follower in tire
crowd.
"You see!" said Urban. THAT IS
what these hoodlums, the |. W. W., say
is free speech. II all depends on who is
speaking. They are behaving just the
way the police behaved last Saturday.
Urban then attacked socialism, which
caused Jean Jacques Coronel social
ist lecturer. TO start TO harangue that
portion Of the crowd between Caron
and Urban. The three-cornered fght
continued for some time and then
Urban departed, going west in nth ST.
Several hundred men followed him. ana
the mounted police were called into SER
vice 10 dispense the crowd when 1t
reached Fifth avenue.
Alexander Berkman presided at the
7. ". w. gathering, and addresses
were made by Carlo Tresca, Leonard
d. Abbott. joe O'Carroll. Becky
Addison. Marie Gantz, Arthur Caron'
David T.. sullivan, Charles ". Plunkett'
Harry Engels and several others.
Lincoln Steffens was much in evil
dence during the afternoon, and
Hutchins Ha- good and a party of lit
erary friends were also present. Chief
Magistrate McAdoo and Magistrate
Freschi arrived late in the afternoon
and John D. Crimmins stopped long
enough to hear a few Of the speeches.
J. Herbert Thewlis. eX-Lord Mayor OF
Manchester England, and Robert Pea
cock. present Police Chief Of Manches-
ter. who are in this country TO study
our police system, also spent some time
at the meeting