1914.07.28: I.W.W. TRIALS BEGIN TODAY

1914.07.28:
I.W.W. TRIALS BEGIN TODAY
Becky Edelson, Hunger Striking on Eggs, to Attend Under Suppoena

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1914.06.10: BOUCK WHITE'S FOES SEEK HIS RELEASE

June 10, 1914

BOUCK WHITE'S FOES SEEK HIS RELEASE

His Counsel Presents Appeal from Directors of Rockefeller Church.

JANE EST AGAIN SENT TO BLACKWELL'S 

Fiery I.W.W. Woman Interrupts Meeting of Peace Forum and Tries Short Arm Jab.

 

Bouck White, who was sentenced to six months in Jail for creating a disturbance in John D. Rockefeller's Calvary Baptist Church, may get his freedom within a day or two. White, who is in the Queens County jail, has served less than a month of his sentence.

The arguments on White's appeal were to have been heard yesterday before Judge Malone in General Sessions. Miss Bertha Rembaugh, counsel for White, changed the programme by producing a letter from the Rev. Cornelius Woelfkin, of Calvary, stating that the church directors believed he had received sufficient punishment. the letter recommended immediate release.

At the suggestion of Judge Malone, Miss Rembaugh agreed to ask Magistrate Campbell, who sentenced White, to advocate clemency. Magistrate Campbell's opinion, the court declared, would carry great weight.

Adjournment was taken to 3 o'clock this afternoon, when former Assistant District Attorney James W. Osborne will apprear for White, if it is necessary to argue the appeal.

Fiery Jane Est, leader, with Frank Tannenbaum of the I.W.W. raid on the Church of St. Alphonsus, the night of March 4, and single handed disruptor of the services in Dr. Parkhurst's church on April 12, yesterday afternoon interrupted Frank Urban of the International Peace Forum, who was conducting a meeting at Madison av. and 24th st., demanding the right to explain to the crowd exactly where Urban was in error. Urban invited Miss Est to "go and get a meeting of her own."

Miss Est responded  with the athletic argument of a short arm jab, which Urban neatly eluded. The Peace Forum man then summoned a policeman and Miss Est was soon arraigned before Lieutenant Powers in the East 22d st. station.

She and the lieutenant staged a small reunion, because it was to the same station that Miss Est was consigned after the Parkhurst uprising, which gave her a thirty-day sentence. Formalities concluded, Miss Est was taken to the Essex Market court, where Magistrate Campbell, who does not pretend to understand philosophy and sociology, gave Miss Est three months on Blackwell's Island. [NOTE: Est had been quoted in another article saying that she was a student of philosophy & sociology.]

Miss Est conducted her own defence. She said that she was thirty-six years of age and had no home.

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.”

1914.05.22: 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.”

1914.05.17: RAID TAFT MEETING JANE EST'S THREAT

May 17, 1914

RAID TAFT MEETING JANE EST'S THREAT

Woman Who Invaded Dr. Parkhurst's Church Says She'll Be at Free Synagogue Today

FEW OUT TO HEAR BERKMAN

Protest Against Bouck White's Sentence a Fizzle--Becky Edelsohn Tamed

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MAYOR ON POLICE CLUBS.

Tells Critics They Should Be Used When Necessary.

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1914.05.09: DR. WHITE TO SEEK DEBATE IN CHURCH

May 9, 1914

DR. WHITE TO SEEK DEBATE IN CHURCH

Social Revolution Pastor Plans to Interrupt Services.

RADICAL MOVEMENT FALLING TO PIECES

Even Marie Ganz Is Now Ready to Give Rockefeller Credit for Doing His Best.

Bouck White will lead a «core or more members of the Church of the Social Revolution into the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church tomorrow morning and attempt to debate with Dr Woelfkin, the pastor, the question of whether or not Jesus taught the "Immorality of being rich." This, at least, is his intention, but the police express doubt as to his daring to carry it out.

There was much debate over the advisability of invading Rockefeller’s church at last night's meeting of Dr. White's congregation, many of the members declaring that it would prejudice decent opinion against their organization. The majority, however, stood fast for the original plan by which Dr. White will get up in the morning service and ask Dr. Woelfkin to make plain his position.

The radical movement meanwhile seems to be dropping to pieces. The Social Union, New York local, has refused Sinclair its support, and will “no co-operate in any way or even sympathize with the mourning picket demonstration.” Sinclair will have nothing to do with the I.W.W., and then Church of the Social Revolution will recognize no radicals but itself.

Anarchy, like a ball game, waits on the weather, and yesterday’s drizzle proved too much for Max Appell and Nat Messman, the I.W.W.’s who patrol 26 Broadway. They stuck it out almost as long as the bystanders, and then concluded that the general strike which they will shortly declare for the rest of the country might as well begin then and there, whereupon they tacked for the nearest bar.

The fall of the pickets was preceded by the even more notable fall of Marie Ganz, who underwent a softening of the heart toward John D. Rockefeller yesterday. Marie told Becky Edelson, who was in court when her companion’s writ of habeas corpus was heard before Justine Lehman, that John D. was trying to do his best to better things, but that other capitalists were making him a scapegoat.

The court was not sufficiently affected to release Marie, however, and sent her back to Blackwell’s Island pending examination of briefs, which will be submitted by her lawyers this morning. As the matter stood, said the justice, he was inclined to dismiss the writ. Such an outcome would hardly deprive Marie of her customary amusements, however, as Becky Edelson gave her a red-covered “Revolutionary Almanac” and the mourners plan to send her “Satan’sReception to John D.,” a fifty-page booklet with a picture of the devil in one corner.

Despite Mrs. Sinclair’s letter to the mourners urging them to make their motto “Grim Persistence,” neither she nor her husband appeared on the picket line. Sinclair’s start for Colorado, which was to have been made yesterday, was put off till this afternoon, but he made up for lost time by issuing a statement.

In this, after declaring that the Rockefeller interests have been “guilty of flagrant, systematic and wholesale murder,” he says that “the foreigner is the hope of the country. Americans will stand for anything these days, but the foreigner came here to secure liberty, and he will fight for it.”

Today, “Sweet Marie” Ganz will be put to work peeling potatoes, scrubbing floors and doing laundry work about the Queens County jail, in Long Island City.