New-York tribune., 1914-03-30
Thirty Men Put on Guard in
Expectation of Threat
ened Raid.
GIRL INCLUDED IN
THREE ARRESTS MADE
Noisy Meeting in Front of ST..
Brigid's, in Avenue B, Dis.
persed by Reserves.

AS the police were taking an l. ". ".
orator to the Madison street station from
Rutgers Square last night they arrested a
sympathizer and later in front Of the sta
ton. the number Of prisoners was in
creased to three when a girl urged
crowd to break down the doors and rescue
the martyrs" confined within
Al the same time meeting in front Of
an East Side church was broken up and
more than thirty men were waiting at DR..
Parkhurst's Madison Square Presbyterian
Church as the result Of information that
the /. w. w. planned a raid there.
This information was conveyed 10 De-
tective Sergeant Barber by Commissioner
Mckay himself. and Barber rounded up
twenty detectives at once. lie also OBJ
tanned from the East ed street station
twelve of the twenty-five uniformed men
on reserve there. Although they waited
until the end Of the service and the sexton
had locked the church the threatened raid
aid not occur
"If the l. w. w. come ] will succor
them until the end of the service" said
DR.. Parkhurst after which they will he
requested to leave. If they do not do so
will call on the police to eject them
The orator at the Rutgers Square meet
ing was "Bennie" Belmont. twenty years
old. Of No 313 Grand street. When
"Bennie" is not unemployed he is car
penter. When he was led off prisoner
after abusing the police in Yiddish, which
had been interpreted TO those on duty al
the meeting, crowd Of about 700 persons
followed. Among them was Percy Mar
NOR, aged nineteen. of No. 422 East 9th
street Marmor, who is student, is
known as Percy the Rebel" and has been
arrested before He was in the crowd OF
disturbers at st. Alphonsuss Church, and
was released on a suspended sentence.
Marmor did not keep out Of the clutches
Of the police long last night. As he and
Belmont disappeared into the police sta
ton Bessie Friedman, seyenteen-year-
old garment worker. followed. Her re-
marks were not TO the liking Of the po-
lice and they put her out Then she made
her innammatory speech and returned to
.
turn until she was taken to the woman's
night court.
There she was discharged by Magis-
trate Herbert. Her companions did not
fare so well when arraigned before Mag
istrate Smms. They were held in $1,000
bail each for examination tonight.
Reserves from the 5th street police sta
ton were called upon last night to dis
perse an I. W. W. meeting in front or II.
Brigids Roman Catholic Church. on Ave
nue. 3. tetween eth and sth streets, which
was being carried on 50 loudly as TO in
terfere with services in the church.
About seventy-fve members Of the "un-
employed" gathered near the church. and,
after fifteen minutes of impassioned
speechmakng, Father Minogue, rector OF
st. Brigids Church, came out OF the
church and as-sed some Of the men u
move further down the street When the
men refused 10 move Father Minogue sum
moned a policeman. she reserves arrived
speedily. and asked no questions, but
started in Immediately TO break up the
gathering. The men offered no resistance
and the meeting adjourned 10 Avenue b
ana JlH street., iiOli NiiNh f'iii' Ni'' ''''''
were taken TO a hall at No. 313 Grand
street and fed and some OF them taken
care of over night.
There was lukewarm meeting at Rut-
gers Square In the evening the men from
which were also taken TO No. 313 Grand
street. This is the headquarters OF Local
80. 1 Of the Unemployed" now in process
of formation by the /. w w
The American Federation OF Labor is
10 be asked to take part in "A mass meet
/ ing Of the unemployed to be held In Union
SQUARE on Saturday afternoon. This was
decided yesterday afternoon at meeting
Of anarchists and socialists at the Fran
cisco Ferrer School, No. So East 1o1th
street. and in which the representatives
OF thirty-two labor organizations took
part.
"The problem Of the unemployed SAID
Alexander Rerkman after the meeting.
now is so big that it cannot he solved by
any one class alone This is not move
Of the anarchists or Of the socialists or OF
the !. ". W. IT is all of us together. We
are submereng our Identities for the COM
mon good