1914.05.04: ROCKEFELLER PICKETING ????

May 4, 1914

ROCKEFELLER PICKETING ????

Protest by the Free Silence League Against Policy in Colorado

Miss Ganz ????????

New York, May 3--Despite the absence of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., at his country home in Pocantico Hills, picketing by the so-called Free Silence League, in protest against what it terms is policy in the Colorado mine strike situation was continued today in front of his downtown office and the Calvary Baptist church, which he attends. Red crosses enclosed in red and black circles were chalked in front of his home. On the walk in front of the church a roman cross in red and a St. Andrew's cross in yellow, within black circles, were chalked. Detectives surmised that these were signs for the league's "mourners."

Miss Ganz Arraigned

While the picketing was going on Marie Ganz, the Industrial Workers of the World orator, who was arrested yesterday, after threats she had made in public against Mr. Rockefeller had been called to the attention of police headquarters, was arraigned in police court on a charge of disorderly conduct. She was released on plea of her counsel, after furnishing $500 cash bail. Harold Spielberg, her attorney, declared after the arraignment his intention of insisting that Mr. Rockefeller should appear in court as the actual complainant against Miss Ganz.

Mr. Rockefeller, ill at Pocantico Hills, had requested the pastor, Dr. Cornelius Weelfkin, at the Calvary Baptist church, to take charge of his Sunday school class. Half a dozen "Mourners" sat in the back of the auditorium and as many detectives sat near them. Twenty-five uniformed policemen were held in readiness in the pastor's study. In the downtown district picketing continued all day although with few onlookers. Armed with a permit from the police commissioner, the Rev William Miller Gamble of St. Stephens' Episcopal church of Coylesville, N.J., held in the afternoon on the sidewalk across the street from the Standard Oil building, the memorial service he had announced would take place there for the miners, their wives and children, killed in Colorado.  Wearing
vestments, the clergyman conducted prayer and reading of Scripture in the presence of a fair sized assemblage. Despite his permit, he was stopped in the midst of his discourse by the police and was obliged to hold the remainder of his service on Bowling Green nearby. His text was "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven."