The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-05
POLICE CLUB Big
ANARCHIST MOB
400 BluecOats Charge Riot
ers in Union Square,
WOunding Scores.
THOUSANDS LOOK ON
l. w. w. and Reds Planned
to Stone Fifth Avenue
Hotels and Clubs.
NINE LEADERS ARRESTED
Teacher in City High School Is
One-Fighting Goes On
for Three Hours.
NINE LEADERS ARRESTED

Police clubs beat upon I. w. w. heads
and police cavalrymen sent anarchists
sprawllng In the dust in Union Square
yesterday afternoon.
For three hours there was savage fight
ing along the north and east sides OF
the square. from Broadway and Seven
teenth street to Fourth avenue and Four
tenth street. as 400 uniformed and plain
clothes policemen crushed combined I.
w w. and anarchist demonstration that
was meant. as the leaders shouted, TO
startle the city"
Their programme was to swamp an
orderly outdoor meeting OF organized
labor. break through the police lines and
sweep up Fifth avenue smashing windows
In clubs and hotels. But the retiring
Police Commissioner. Douglas |. Mckay.
heard OF the scheme hours before the
I. w W. and anarchists came yelling to
the square. and he sent his men out to
work without kid gloves.
When the afternoons fighting. which
was like a series of thunderstorms IN
clear sunlight. was at an end there were
nine prisoners in the East TIVE nty-second
street station. including Wild Joe OCar-
roll and Garibaldl NJ Lapola. teacher
in the De Witt Clinton High School
Thirty men were doctoring broken heads
bruised limbs and cuts. and the rioters
were fleeing north. east. south and west
without backward glance.
Hotels and Clubs Guarded.
The Fifth avenue hotels and clubs were
aware OF the threatened attack only be-
cause Of squads OF policemen who were
ambushed IN their cellars or Easements
No scene in New York for years has
approached the violence OF the outbreak
in Union Square yesterday. At one time
or another In the three hours the 400
policemen. afoot and mounted. were sirug-
Cling with 1000 OF the followers OF the
red flag. while 5000 peaceable but excited
persons looked on from the border lines
of the fight or leaned perllously from the
windows Of tall buildings.
The ytns of defiance. the curses. the
screams OF pain from men and women
the clackng of galloping horses the curt
orders from police commanders made
chorus which overwhelmed the ordinary
song OF the streets Most Of this was en-
and heard by Commissioner Mckay and
sheriff Grifenhagen
There was never a doubt as to the
ability of the police 10 master the rioters,
The officers fought coldly. contemptuously'
systema tically. shoulder TO shoulder and
elbow TO elbow. The l. w W. aud
anarchists battled wildly and lost all
judgment in furious rage.
Police phaianxes r.ppsd apart the J. w.
W. horde and sent the pieces flying. hut
while wild Joe O'Carroll, Adolph Wo!T.
the l. w. W. poet. and other leaders
roamed free their follow rs kept rallying
to shrill cries and attempted again and
again to start forbidden marches.
Try to Rule Labor Men.
The conflict with the police and the re-
sulting casualties yesterday were the out
come, as on the occasion of the !. w, w.
invasion OF Cooper Union three We, ks ago,
OF the red flags determination to dominate
gathering of organized labor which
didn't want them and doesn't applaud their
notions
The outdoor meeting yesterday was
called by the Central Federated Union for
the purpose of arous.ng sympathy and col
lecting money for thu striking copper
miners in the Calumet. Mich. district.
Thomas A. Curtis and other officials OF
the G. f. L. obtained permit for the
meeting OF their organization But the
defs nee COMMITTEES OF the |. w ". and
the anarchists wanted Union Square for
themselves and when they were told by
the police that the c. +. L, had obtained
the privilege they determined to go and
take the square and after taking Il to
terrorize Fifth avenue.
Ernest BONN. Sc of the G. +. L..
told the l. w. w. and anarchist leaders
that the labor men had no objection to
their presence II they would behave them
selves, but that organized labor would not
stand for disorder Joe Cohen Wild Joe
o'Carroll. Woln and La Rca sneered at
the G. +. U. men for n lot of weddings.
Mckay Learned of Plan.
Police information is obtained in mys-
terious ways. Like crook news. 1t travels
underground. At headquarters Mckay
was aware yesterday morning of the plan
to seize Union Square and to batter down
the windows of the Fifth avenue hotels
and clubs lie dictated "A few orders
which set the police machine to work
silently and effectively
Inspectors Cahalane and Faurot were
put In charge. They put their hands on
400 men for active duty In Union Square
and they distributed 200 more uniformed
and plain clothes men In tn hotels and
clubs Of the avenue from Union square
to tooth street,
Squads were hidden In the cellars and