May 17, 1914
ANARCHISTS HISS JANE EST, "MARTYR”
She Interrupts Union Square Speaker and Defends Mitchel.
ALLEGRO IS CAUTIOUS
Harangue Loses Ultra Rabid Note of Early Spring Outbursts.
Jane Est, who has served time for invading churches with the I.W.W.,
caused the only flurry at yesterday’s anarchist meeting in Union Square.
With her long white veil whipping the faces of those near her she dived
through the throng and jumped on a pile of lumber to defend Mayor Mitchel and
ask the crown to attack Pietro Allegro of the I.W.W.
“Hurrah for Mayor Mitchel!” screamed Miss Est, and pointing at Allegro,
“Tear that man down! Tear him down!”
The crown was not with her. It jeered, sneered, and groaned and told
her she lied. Miss Est was undismayed.
Men nearest her reached for her skirt, but she stooped and shook her
fist, smiling triumphantly and talking like a landslide.
“I won’t hear him insult the flag!” she shrieked. “And if it were not
for Mitchel we would be mobbed where we stand.”
Allegro, still surrounded by half of the 500 anarchists, I.W.W. idlers
and park loungers, who constituted the audience kept right on denouncing
Colorado, the Rockefellers, Mayor Mitchel, the flag, Magistrate Campbell and
the police. What he was saying sounded tame alongside utterances at such
meetings earlier this spring.
Miss Est, failing to get the ear of the crown, got down from the timber
pile and waited until Allegro ended his address. Then Alexander Berkman, boss
of the meeting let her talk.
When she told the crowd that it was unpatriotic there was a menacing
movement, but her opponents did nothing more than hiss, groan and call her
names.
Berkman, in his opening speech, speaking of the Mayor’s stand that the
police must act vigorously against peace breakers, howled:
“We don’t give a damn for Mayor Mitchel and his City hall gang! They
take their orders from 26 Broadway.”
A tip that a bomb was to be placed under the cottage at the north end
of the square caused the police early in the afternoon to guard all approaches
to it and lock up the basement.
“A plain clothes man took down in shorthand every word that was uttered
by the speakers, but then ten uniformed police and the score of detectives on
hand kept well in the background all afternoon.
CAN’T CALL ON MARIE GANZ.
Alexander Berkman Barred as
Visitor to City Prisons.
Alexander Berkman, the anarchist, will not be allowed to call on “Sweet
Marie” Ganz in prison, though she has designated him as her monthly visitor for
the six months she must spend in the city prison in Queens because of her
threats to kill John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Commissioner of Correction Davis said yesterday that it would not be
for the best interest of justice to allow Berkman to visit inmates of the city
prisons She ordered him excluded, after being assured by acting Corporation
Counsel Hahlo that the Charter gives her the right to adopt such rules.
When Reba Edelson was arrested as a public disturber she also
designated Berkman as her regular visitor, but she got out on bail before he
had a chance to call.
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