1914.05.27

May 27, 1914

Rev. Bouck White, who interrupted the services and caused a riot in a New York church because he didn’t like the Rockefellers, is painting the Queens County jail, where he is serving a sentence of six months. Another prisoner, Sweet Marie Ganz, the I.W.W. firebrand, is leading a dozen women prisoners who are engaged in spring cleaning. New York has a lot more jails and a lot more disturbers of the class of the Rev. Bouck and “Sweet Marie.”

1914.05.24: I.W.W. FOLLOWERS IN A STREET ROW

May 24, 1914
I.W.W. FOLLOWERS IN A STREET ROW
Threaten Proprietor of Hall Who Refuses to Let Them Hold a Protest Meeting
TWO MEN ARE ARRESTED
Berkman and Becky Edelson Then Assail the Police at Corner Demonstration.

1914.05.22: JOHN D., JR., BACK AT WORK.

May 22, 1914

JOHN D., JR., BACK AT WORK.

Tormentors Over Colorado Strike, Silenced Mostly By Jail.

New York, May 23.—John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has returned to work after twenty days spent at the country estate of his father at Pocatlco Hills. Since May 1 when he went into retirement, most of his tormentors under the leadership of Upton Sinclair, have been silenced, several by being sent to jail. Sinclair is in Colorado and Marie Ganz and the Rev. Bouck White are serving sentences on Blackwell's Island, the latter for having broken up the services at the Calvary Baptist church ten days ago. Mother Jones alone remains in the lecture field, and nightly denounces the Rockefeller interests In the Colorado coal districts.

Mr. Rockefeller's secretary said yesterday he is making no investigation of conditions in Colorado.

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1914.05.21: COMES OUT OF HIS RETREAT

May 21, 1914

COMES OUT OF HIS RETREAT

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Returns to New York.

New York, May 21.—John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has returned to work after twenty days spent at the country estate of his father at Pocantico Hills. Since May 1, when he went into retirement, most of his tormentors, under the leadership of Upton Sinclair, have been silenced, several by being sent to jail. Sinclair is in Colorado and Marie Ganz and the Rev. Bouck White are. serving sentences on Blackwell's island, the latter for having broken up the services at the Calvary Baptist church ten days ago. "Mother" Jones alone remains in the lecture field and nightly denounces the Rockefeller interests in the Colorado coal districts.

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1914.05.20: ROCKEFELLER BACK; I.W.W. SIEGE RAISED

May 20, 1914

ROCKEFELLER BACK; I.W.W. SIEGE RAISED

Financier Returns to Desk After 19 Days of Illness and Worry.

“MOTHER” JONES NOW CHIEF TORMENTOR

Statement That Oil King’s Son Is Afraid to Interview Her Denied

For the first time in nineteen days John D. Rockefeller, Jr., cured of his “cold” and up to his ears in work, is back at his desk in the Standard Oil Building, whence Sinclair's "mourners” drove him the first of May. Since his retreat to Pocantico most of his tormentors have been silenced or placed in jail.

Upton Sinclair is in Colorado. Marie Ganz is on Blackwell’s Island for six months. So is Bouck White, who broke up the service at the Calvary Baptist Church ten days ago,and with him is Milo Woolman, an anarchist and I.W.W. Becky Edelson and Sam Hartman are still about, but their talk lacks “punch” and the crowds do not respond. The Church of the Social Revolution is still flickering.

“Mother” Jones, alone of the agitators, has stuck to her guns, denouncing Rockefeller at nightly meetings. She declares Rockefeller is afraid to see her, and that her request for an interview was refused without even being read.

This, however, Mr. Heydt, secretary to the financier, denied.

“If ‘Mother’ Jones comes to the office she will be treated courteously,” he said, “and get a hearing. Her letter was not opened because it is the invariable custom of the office to open no letter sent by registered mail unless it bears the sender’s name on the outside. Hers didn’t.

“She can’t see Mr. Rockefeller himself, however. He’s too busy—and it would do no good. He’s a minority stockholder in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company and can’t influence its dealings with the miners, etc.

“No, he’s not making any personal investigation of conditions out there. Why should he?”

“He will not comment on the sentence imposed on White, but he stands behind Dr. Woelfkin and the church. He has been much affected by the things said and printed concerning him.”

1914.05.20 GOTHAM HOTBED OF ANARCHIST

May 20, 1914

GOTHAM HOTBED OF ANARCHIST

Radical Agitators Have a Freer Rein in New York Than They Ever Had Before

BY CARLTON TEN EYCK

(Written for the United Press.)

NEW YORK, May 20.—"Never in their worst days were the blackest centers of Russia, and other European countries where anarchy Is fostered, any worse than certains of New York in regard to breeding spots for agitation against established government."

That statement made a few days ago by one of the moat prominent of New York's police officials, and a man who has studied anarchy and anarchists for thirty years along with his study of crime, aptly tells the situation in this metropolitan center of the' "Home of the Free." There isn't a shadow of doubt that anarchists and radical agitators generally have a freer rein in New York today than they have ever had before. And, strange to say, the man who is insisting on giving the "public forum speakers" and agitators the loosest sort of "free speech" rein is no other official than Mayor Mitchel, who recently narrowly escaped assassination at the hands of a poor maniacal old crank whose mind no doubt had become violently twisted through hearing day after day everything from God to government denounced by anarchists in the public squares.

Or course, some of these public forum speakers represent honest, God-fearing reasonable organizations such as union labor, etc., which are protecting reasonably against certain conditions that even the most conservative, tory-minded individuals admits are all wrong. But the majority of these speakers are preaching anarchy as black and destructive as can be heard anywhere.

Speak in Parks

At Union Square, at the foot of Benjamin Franklin's statute in Park Row, in Rutgers Square, and other public rostrums these speakers exhort crowds. It is not infrequent that a Socialist speaker and an anarchist or an I. W. W. exhorter begins to talk at the same time and within a few feet of each other. When this happens, the speakers make it fun for the crowds by heaping abuse on each other's heads.

The occupation of Vera Cruz and the Trinidad, Colo., coal strike in which militiamen and strikers shot each other down, furnished basis for such talk .by these speakers. The two events first, brought to general notice "Sweet Marie" Ganz, Reba Edelson, Gussie Miller, and other girls who follow Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, "Wild Joe” O'Carroll, who led the church riots, and the teachers at the Ferrer School of Anarchy.

"Sweet Marie" Ganz, by the way, was so named in irony, by the police because of her foul tongue when haranguing mobs. Besides threatening to kill John D. Rockefeller, Jr. on sight, the Ganz girls cursed and blasphemed, hurled vile epithets at men and women in the crowd who annoyed, her by jeering or asking her questions, and made herself generally the very opposite of the name the police gave her.

Marie is a pink and white complexioned girl of 23. Her figure is of the voluptuous type and her eyes and mouth are extremely sensuous. If she did not follow too closely the habits of Emma Goldman in dressing she would make rather an attractive girl. Women critics might say that Marie's figure is sloppy or inclining to fat.

Girl is Jailed

The Edelson girl, who they say is extremely jealous of Marie because of the latter's, ability to "pull the limit and get away with it," until she was finally jailed for 60 days for threats, was thrown into a Tombs cell after causing a riot by her exhortations. Reba, or Becky as she prefers to be called, is very nice looking.

She is light and exceedingly well proportioned and is very tidy in her dress. Maybe that's one reason Marie doesn't get along so well with Reba. All these women call themselves "Red Virgins" and "Red Angels." The police say it ought to be "Black Angels."

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