New-York tribune., 1921-05-12
Thomas Foils
Women Labor
pickets at Pier
IL. P. Remains ON Olympic
While Detectives Drive
Irish-Americaa League
Standard-Bearers Away
Flees Dock i'm Closed Car
Relish Financiers Also ON
the Olympic; Mrs. Ell. p.
Whitney Among Arrivals

rbs White Star Line piers, which
~ several years have been a parade
-.onnd for Irish women with banners
: ,sssplay, were invaded yesterday by
dosen women standard bearers of
,ss Ir;sh- American Labor League.
They came early and would have
saved late had they not been driven
svsy BY a squad of private detectives
J, tie steamship line.
The distinguished visitor the women
4ss prepared to meet with hostile
ss~seting was J. ii. Thomas, Labor
wsw,ber Of Parliament for Derby, who
cas- a passenger on the White Star
,Ssr Olympic, in yesterday from Cher
Seurg and Southampton.
0ne of the banners bore the tnscrip-
.;sn. eThonaas was driven out of Eng
isndl Why" Another inscription read,
sIudas Iscariot hanged himself. viii
Thomas follow suit?'
Thomas Escapes in Auto
A hint of what was going on at the
-;ar entrance was carried aboard ship
+ Mr.. Thomas and he did not come
sshors as promptly as the women had
srnected. After being driven from the
-;er the women took up position in
;yont Of the entrance, expecting that In
,me Mr.. Thomas would appear. Their
,;yii was in vain, however, for the Wis
;.ey was escorted TO big freight ele~
,ptor that took him from the upper tier
Il the main floor of the pier and he was
Srivan away in closed car unnoticed
l.. 3ha nickets of the Irish-American
Labor League.
While the Olympic was steaming up
tse bay from Quarantine Mr.. Thomas
was asked why he had come to this
GENTRY at tirne when labor diff
eulties at home were serious.
~ did so on the advice of my physi~
sisn." he answered. "He informed me
that i'll did not go away would suffer
!. complete breakdown"
Mr. Thomas said he did not know
row long he would remain in this coun-
tgg. hut thought it would be at least
lsng enough for him to make trip to
Denver
Frederick Benson, a banker OF Lon
dan. came over on the Olympic, accom-
aanied by a group of financial men
who are TO attend conferences in this
eountry for the further development of
= timber tract Of -450 square miles in
British Columbia.
Mr.. Benson was accompanied by Sir
Cennop Guthrie, former representative
of the British Ministry of Shipping in
Ills city. Others in the party were
Colonel Reginald S. Chaplin, of the
British army; Louis Arens. 6 Russian
tenor. and William Henry Horne, the
smateur golf champion of South Africa.
Mrs. Harry p. Whitney Returns
another traveller on the Olympic was
Mrs Harry Payne Whitney, who had
made Short trip TO France to assist
in the exhibition OF her sculptural
work in the galleries of Georges Petit,
Of Paris. She said she felt greatly
houored when her Titanic memorial
vas taken By France for place in
the luxembourg.
Among others on board were Gil
bert Miller, c. ". Barron, Mrs. O. H..
?. Beimon', H. Percival Dodge, Walter
T. Bingslsnd, F. Norrie Miller, James
Parton, Charles A. Shearson, f. A..
Sterling, Sir Arthur Willert. Sir Albert
Wyon, Miss Abby Rockefeller, Sir
Mortimer y. Davis. Mrs. NJ. H. Dyer
and MIR and Mrs. Nelson ". Greenhut.