New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-01
Resolutions to Wilson Are
Adopted on Behalf of
War Directors
Big Force Of Police
Shepherds the Mob
Five Arrested for Dis
tributing Anti-Draft
Circulars

A crowd of $4,000, made mp largely
Of young Americans by adol ion who
have found within themselves since
the passage Of the conscription bill
certain decided scruples against harm
ing or being harmed by their fellow
man, brought the "First American
Conference for Democracy and Terms
Of Peace TO bowling close At Madi-
son Square Garden last night.
Their howling-and it was literal
was for peace, peace at any price,
rcace without victory. 1t was the
sense of the gathering. set forth in
resolutions and nosily acclaimed.
that President Wilson be called upon
for full and unmistakable pro
rouncement on the rights Of the con-
scientious objector, that the govern
ment be made TO reafirm its mo in
demnity" war aims. and that citizens
in general be invited into the scrupu-
lousy pacific brotherhood which pro-
poses. by joining hands with free
Russia, to Save our own nation from
the horrors of war" .
Five Arrests Made
Five Of the DIRECTORS whose zeal for
peace led them 10 aid in distributing
circulars of Emma Goldman's anti
conscription league were arrested by
soldiers and sailors from the Mayors
committees recruiting station. who
we're there not so much in the hope of
finding good and willing fighting ma
terial as out of curiosity.
The five. unable to obtain the $500
bail demanded by Magistrate Corrigan
in the night court. slept in cells.
charged, systematically, with violating
"a" Federal statute. To-day. when
they are turned over TO the Federal
authorities, the charge may be-devel-
oped into ono Of treason. With the
circulars the police are familiar. on
them is a picture Of workingman
standing in front Of a cannon as he
tears paper labelled Transcription"
In suspendinr sentence on an earlier
distributor Of the same circulars a few
weeks ago Magistrate Fuchs gave warn
ing that the next offender would face
trial for treason.
One of the five prisoners is woman
Miss Jennie Demer. of 235 Fifth
Avenue, Brooklyn. The others are
Louis Kramer, POS Second Avenue;
Louis Sternberg, % Rutgers Street;
Joseph Walden. West Thirteenth
Street, and Morris Becker, Is West
10th Street. All are natives OF Rus
STA.
Sergeant Benhrin Silverman. of the
8th Coast Defence command. directed
the arrests and turned over his prison
ers to the police.
Threatens 10 Become Battle
threatened 10 turn into a ree-for-ali
battle. Not all present were men Of
peace, and those who were not heart
and soul in the cause chief among
them the squad from the recruiting
station eco frequently expressed their
loud disapproval.
No chances had been taken by the
Police Department. At 6 o'clock. when
the crowd began to assemble. lines had
already been established about the
Garden by four hundred uniformed
men. OF these one hundred were kept
at the Fourth Avenue entrance during
the meeting, ready TO charge through
the interior in flying wedge formation
at a moments notice.
Chief Inspector Schmittberger. with
Inspector Bolan Is aid, was IN charge.
As an auxiliary arm the uniformed
forces had At hand four department
cars mounting seachlights, whose harei
has proved as cflicacious AS hickory n
dispensing mobs. There was. in sddl-
ton. a fire engine in Twenty-sixth
Street, and aother in Twenty seventh
Street. with fires banked and lines o.
hose ready to run out.
Inside the Garden. Inspector John
Cray, Of the Detective Bureau, had