June 2, 1914
TROUBLE IS ANTICIPATED AT TARRYTOWN, N.Y.
WHEN "FREE SPEECH" ADVOCATES ARRIVE FROM NEW YORK THIS AFTERNOON
Fire Department Ready to Wet Down the Crowd if Trouble is Started Extra Police on Duty.
(By United Press)Tarrytown, N.Y., June 2.--Tense with excitement and the fear of serious trouble when expected "free speech" advocates arrive here from New York to continue wordy warfare against John D. Rockefeller, all Tarrytown today prepared to receive the invaders. Four or five hundred I.W.W. members from New York are expected at any hour to insist on the right of free expression and to force it from the community known as "Rockefeller's town."
The village fears that weapons may be used in the promised invasion and that bloodshed may ensue. The fire department of the town today had its hose all ready for a quick connection. in addition to this extra men have been sworn in as policemen and arms have been dealt out.
Leonard Abbott, head of the Ferrer School of Socialism in New York, Alexander Berkman, companion of Emma Goldman, the anarchist, and Helen Harris, known from her flaming hair as "Helen of Troy" are expected to be the directing forces of the invasion.
Thirteen I.W.W. prisoners arrested here in Sunday's invasion still are held in jail at White Plains. They will be brought here on Saturday for trial and trouble is surely looked for then. Among the White Plains prisoners is Becky Edelson, successor to "Sweet Marie" Ganz, as woman leader of the free speech hosts. there were reports that the prisoners had started a hunger strike. This was denied by the jail officials.
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