Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-01
Violence Threats
 for Rockefeller
TICKETS PACE SIDEWALK IN
 FRONT OF HIS OFFICE
BRANDS IT AS INFAMOUS
Objects to LawIsss Acts at Ludlow, coI- Being Formed 'Ths Rockefeller
 WarrAHunser Strike Started.

New York, April 30-Threats of H-~ olence made against John D. Rocke- feller today by demonstrators against what was declared to be his policy in the Colorado mine war. One woman vainly attempted to invade his house withdrew with imprecations on her lips and in a speech outside threat ened him with personal harm if he persisted in declining to consent to arbitration in the Colorado crisis.
 While Upton Sinclair, Miss Elizabeth Freeman, an English militant suffra- gette, and Mrs. Donie Lietner, pioneers in the Free Silence League movernnt were being sent today to the Tombs prison for picketing yesterday. other picketers wearing crepe on their sleeves began pacing the siedwalk in front of 26 Broadway, where MT. Rockefeller has his offices. All day long the march was kept up, and meet tngs were held in Bowling Green at which speakers reiterated charges that he was responsible for conditions in the Ludlow district
 Tonight Mir. Rockefeller issued q statement charcterizing as +infamous" any allusion to conditions in Colorado as "Rockefeller's war" The conflicts in Colorado were not between mine owners and strikers, he declared, but between the strikers and the state troops. The statement contained no reference to the free silence" pro- test in this city.
 Sinclair, Miss Freeman and Mrs. Lietner went to jail in preference to paying $3 fine each after they were convicted of disorderly conduct. They said they would go on a hunger strike. Burdette G. Lewis, deputy commission CT of corrections. intimated, however, that efforts would be made to prevent any such strike.
 Woman Makesc Verbal Attack.
 Marie af he woman who attempted to see Mr Rockefeller in his office. When at tendants barred her out she walked in- to Bowling Green Park, mounted a pile of lumber and made a verbal at tack on him If he failed to accent arbitrtion with Government, she cried to throng of several thousand per sons, he would be forced to arbitrate with the working people.
 The crowd surged in close, shouted and threw sand Someone hurled . paving block in the direction of Alex ander Berkman, anarchist, who yas also making a speech.
 The speakers were swept from the lumber and escorted by the police, ran to subway entrance and escaped. and fined on complaint of Rebecca Adela, an l. W. W. speaker, who was recently released from jail after a brief hunger strike. Upton SincIafr.s wife was in front of 26 Broadway among the picketers, one whom wore ribbon with the text Thou Shalt Not Kill"
 MT. Rockefellers statement. issued tonight, quoted the lieutenant governor Of Colorado in an effort to show that the strikers themselves started the trouble by killing a non-union man. Riluding to the deplorable loss of life in Colorado," MT. Rockefeller said:
 TO describe this condition as
 Rockefellers war" as has been done by certain of the sensational news- papers and speakers, is infamous. Our interest is solely in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, which is simply one Of large number of coal operat- ing companies in the state of Colorado. MT. Rockefeller quoted correspond d- ence between Governor Ammons of Colorado and the operators in Noyem- Der 1913, to refute statements by union leaders that. the question in conten- ton is not the unionizing of miues. This correspondence MT. Rockefeller said, shows that the recognition of the union was the only issue that present- ed any difficulty"