The New York herald., 1921-09-21
LEDOUX WILL FEED,
NOT SELL JOBLESS
Reaches Compromise With
Police After He Had Been
Trailed All Day.
TO OPEN BREAD LINE
Free Lodging and Employ
ment Bureau Planned in
st. Marks Church.
TO OPEN BREAD LINE

Scores OF policemen in uniform and
plain clothes. under Inspector William
Coleman OF the First district and Ser
geant James j. Gegan of the Bomb
Squad, trailed in the wake of Urbain
Ledoux, self-appointed apostle Of the
unemployed, yesterday and last night
10 forestall a repetition Of the Bryant
Park riots, but with the exception Of
one brief outbreak of disorder when the
Sunset Club, rival organization. tried
TO give away boxes of cakes and
doughnuts there was little trouble.
Ledoux promised not to attempt to
hold slave auction" and the police
told him in that case he could go as
far as he liked-feed the whole town
If he wanted to. Sergeant Gegan said
After tour of South street and the
East River water front he called the
newspaper men together and issued
statement.
Truth is triumphant" he said. ''rhe
roiice have found out that l am not
dangerous radical and I have accom-
pose of holding an auction was to at
tract attention to the unemployment sit
uation, but that is no longer necessary.
! congratulate the press.
To Open Rread Line.
"All day long we have been getting
offers of aid by letter and telephone.
Tomorrow I will give you list Of the
prominent persons who have agreed to
help us. We are going to open a bread
line and free lodging and employment
bureau IN St Marks Church on Monday.
hope. The police are with me now
Ledoux said he would be in Bryant
Park again at Z o'clock this morning
and give out meal tickets, each good for
All one hungry man can eat, at Blake's
Doughnut Parlor, in West Thirty-fourt
street The cops shooed him out OF the
park yesterday morning when he ar
rived about 80. but not before he had
distributed sixty tickets--all he had.
The disturbance in Bryant Park last
night was the outcome of an attempt by
the Sunset Club, composed of grand
mothers, to pass out free crullers and
axes. a mob. composed mostly of
small boys, stampeded the cake table
and upset the boxes. Joseph Murray
who was helping the women, was
knocked down and tranoled.
The police scattered the cake eaters
with their clubs Mrs. II. Macdonald
of 317 West Ninety fifth street, one OF
the members OF the clubs, protested
against the. clubbing.
Il am Mortified" she exclaimed
This is the first time members OF the
grandmothers' club have been insulted."
Ledoux's pilgrimage last night led him
from Chatham square and the Bowery
TO Cathearine slip. There he encountered
half dozen men loaflng on the docks
Five of them refused to accept meal
tickets and said they had jobs. The
sixth took three tickets. but one Of the
detectives recognized him as a profess
sional panhander who worked" that
particular section of the waterfront
Meal Tickets Given Out.
At 20 South street Ledoux had better
luck. That is the headquarters of the
Marine Firemen. Oilers and Water
Tenders Union, and a meeting was in
progress. Fifty tickets. which entitled
the bearer 10 coffee and two rolls at
the Gordona lunch room. 21 Bowery.
We're handed out.
The next stop was made at the Sea-
mems Church Institute, Coenties Slip.
where about zoo unemployed seamen
were idling on the corner. Ledoux was
mobbed by them. He gave out ffty
more tickets and Ave men, who said
they had not eaten for two days re-
ceived 81 each. This ended the expedi-
tion and Inspector Coleman dismissed
his men.
The American Civil Liberties Union
an organization that has been active in
behalf of political prisoners. conscien-
cous objectors and the like. entertained
Mr.. Ledoux at luncheon yesterday at 81
West Sixteenth street. Those present in
cluded Robert Morse Lovet, editor OF
the NetC Republic and dean OF Chicago
University Miss Rose Schneidermann,
Darwin J. MeseroIe, Walter Nelles. who
was counsel for James Larkin, the an
archist, Norman Thomas, Murray c.
Bernays and Mrs. Lucille u. Miner
After luncheon a telegram was sent to
Police Commissioner Enright protesting
against THE illegal and brutal tactics
OF the police" in Bryant Park Monday
night and urging in the name of Ameri-
can justice wiser better methods Of
handling the unemployment crisis"
The police did some sociological re-
search work on their own account last
night. Ten men selected as typical
Byant Park bench warmers were ar
rested on d charge OF "obstructing traffic
and preventing citizens from the lawful
use Of the park paths.
They were taken to the West Thirtieth
street station and their pedigree re-
corded. All OF them were from out of
sovn. hailing from such points as Bos-
ton. Chicago. Indiana. Cincinnati. Con-
nectlcut, AMI one man from England. |
All were jobless. Their ages ranged |
from ts to 21 years with the exception |
~ ane man, who was AZ. None OF them |
was an ex-seryice man.