New-York tribune., 1919-06-26
Plans for Soviet Union
Upset by Free Fight
East Fourth Street Defies Lead.
ers of Thou ght and
Goes tn IT

meeting of cloak and suit workers
held last night in Manhattan Lyceum.
o6 East Fourth Street, to establish a
union on Soviet lines, ended a half
hour after it began in spirited Bolshe-
vik fashion.
Some one in the rear of the hall
SAID something. Some one else hit him.
From then. on almost any one who
spoke got hit. There were about soo
persons in the hall, but not even the
TACT that John Reed, Rose Pastor Stokes.
jim Larkin and others on the platform
urged them to declare an armistice de-
TERED the riot in any way.
Follce Captain James McAulev of
the Filth Street station, ATTEMPTED to
use diplomacy in quieting the fight, but
was forced after disastrous attempt
az intervention to use the reserves. The
lew police at hand forced their wav
into the hall and threw soma of Ky the
nghters out upon the sidewalk. That
oldnt make any difference; thew went
on flghting just the same.
- eventually enough patrolmen forced
thelr way into the hall, to clear it be-
tore the walls collapsed. Practically
al OF the furniture had been wrecked
tables were broken and chairs shatter-
ed and bits Of clothing decorated the
W Men were arrested outside the
oelldlng. One was Harry Rosenbaum,
81 fa,aaJ zy40 IT, Thirty tth Street, Coney
Island: Is: Herman Levine. of 296 South
First Street, Brooklyn, said Harry hit
MN NJ with chair. Samuel Schiller, of
% East Third Street, was taken into
CUSTODY on charge Of dsorderly con-
duct. WIZ
OBITUARY NOTES
MRS: 1MOGENE CHADLAYNE WHIT.
~, ILESEY, seventy-ive widow of Curtis E.
Whittlesey died yesterday at her home at
Madison. N. j. Her funeral will be held to-
morrow on the arrival of the Lackawanna
train which leaves Hoboken at 2:3O D. m
JOSEPH STEWART, seventy-six. a re-
tired u police sergeant and a veteran of the
Civil! War. died Tuesday in the Brooklyn Hos
patai' mr.. Stewart was a member of the
7Stn Regiment He belonged to the G. a. R.
and Copestone Lodge. GAL. F. and A. M
MRS: ELEANOR FRASER K1NGsLAND
n1AHk. es. seventy-nine. stepmother Of DR.. A.
4. starr. dean of the New York College of
Dental Surgery. died Tuesday at 500 St,
Johns Place, Brooklyn.
MRS. LYDIA VERONICA Du Bors
RIDDLE, sixty-fve. wife of Edwin B. Riddle,
formerly employed by The Tribune. is dead at
S4O Seventy-second Street. Bay Ridge.
= ADELAIDE L. COUDERT. wife of l.. L.
Coudert, the foreign representative of the
her home. $50 West Seventy-first Street She
s survived by her husband. four sons and
two daughters.
JOHN Z. RAEDER. seventy-three re-
tired insurance broker. died Sunday at his
home. 4l3 Grove Street. Brooklyn.
WILLIAM ARNOLD. fifty-nine. a railroad
angineer. who was hurt in a wreck at Hill.
side. N. j.. last Friday. died yesterday In the
Elizabeth IN. J.) General Hospital.
JAMES r VAJ ENTTNE ea,,An4u a.
tile and brick manufacturer. died suddenlv
Tuesday night at his summer home, 705 Sec
ond Avenue. Asbury Park. N. j.
ALBERT HEADLEY. seventy-one. for
many years employed papermaker by
the Fandnngo Paper Company died yester.
day. at his home. in Springfield Township,
NJ. r'
DAVID E. LOyELAND. fifty-cight, treas-
urer of the HIT Lining Board of Trade. died
yesterday mt his home lat East Thirty
fourth Street The body was taken 10 the
Campbell Funeral Churct:S