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1914.05.06: SINCLAIR FLOPS IN ROCKEFELLER PLEASE
May 6, 1914
SINCLAIR FLOPS IN ROCKEFELLER PLEASE
Chief Mourner Shifts Attention From John D., Jr., to Uncle William.
ASKS AUDIENCE TO-DAY
Marie Ganz, Deserted by Her Lawyers, Has Her Hearing Postponed.
Upton Sinclair sent a letter yesterday to William Rockefeller
requesting an interview with him today on the subject of the miners’ strike in
Colorado. In asking for the interview Sinclair took occasion to say again that
he was had and will have nothing to do with the firebrands who have urged
violence against members of the Rockefeller family. His letter said the writer
understood that Mr. Rockefeller was active in formulating the policy of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company and that John D Rockefeller, Jr., had been
guided by his uncle’s advice. Disclaiming and decrying any threats off personal
violence Sinclair asked for a personal hearing in order to lay before Mr.
Rockefeller the miners’ side of the controversy. He said that he and Mrs.
Sinclair would call at Mr. Rockefeller’s office at 3 o’clock this afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair continued their mourning picket duty in front of
26 Broadway yesterday in spite of the rain. Others joined the procession from
time to time.
It was said at the office of William Rockefeller yesterday afternoon
that he was not there and that his secretaries also had gone home. No
intimation was given as to whether or not Mr. Rockefeller would consent to see
Mr. and Mrs. Sinclalr.
“Sweet Marie” Ganz, the anarchist speaker, arrested for disorderly
conduct in making threats against John D. Rockefeller, Jr., induced Magistrate Murphy
in the Tombs police court yesterday to consent to the adjournment of her case
until a 2 o’clock this afternoon, after two attorneys had withdrawn from her
defence. It will be heard before him at 300 Mulberry street.
Her attorney, Harold Spielberg, first asked that she be allowed to
waive examination and await trial in Special Sessions under a section of the
Penal Law which makes disorderly conduct a misdemeanor. The Magistrate denied
the motion, telling Spielberg that another complaint had been substituted with
the charge of disorderly conduct under the city Charter.
Spielberg said that he had not seen the new complaint, and when
Magistrate Murphy persisted in his determination to try “Sweet Marie” under it
her lawyer withdrew from her defence. His place was immediately taken by K.
Henry Rosenberg.
Rosenberg told the Magistrate that he was also unfamiliar with the new
complaint and asked for a postponement.
“Counselor,” said the Magistrate, “you are here now. This case will go
on.”
Rosenberg looked at his watch, declared that it would be impossible and
left the court room. “Sweet Marie was left unsupported before the bar. The
prisoner got up instantly.
“I should like your Honor to postpone my case for twenty-four hours,”
she said. “I cannot fight my case alone.”
The Magistrate agreed, after some discussion, on Marie’s promise to
proceed with the matter today.
Four “silent mourners” paced up and down in front of John d.
Rockefeller, Jr.’s house at 10 West Fifty-fourth street from 5:30 to 7:30 P.M.
yesterday. They had two umbrellas and smoked cigars. Detective Ward directed
them to increase the length of their march so that they were compelled to walk
from Fifth avenue almost to Sixth avenue before turning. This seemed to tire
the four. The marchers were Max Appel, Nathan Messman, C.I. Ingersoll and Perry
Godin.
1914.05.05: DYNAMITE MENACE FOR ROCKEFELLERS
May 5, 1914
DYNAMITE MENACE FOR ROCKEFELLERS
Guards Redouble Vigilance at Tarrytown Because of New Rumor.
"ON TO CLEVELAND!" "MOURNERS' " SLOGAN
Plan Is to Picket All Standard Oil Offices—Agitator Wants John D. Jr., to End Life.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is still secluded at his father’s Pocantico
Hills estate and is not expected back in New York several days. His secretary
says he was a cold. The secretary goes up from New York every day, and thus young
Mr. Rockefeller devotes his time to business.
In this city, however, picketing is being kept up as if the reason for
it all were that the city be properly impressed by it. Efforts were made
yesterday to extend the picket scheme to other cities. The I.W.W. was busy on a
plan to put a “mourning patrol” at the Cleveland house of Mr. Rockefeller.
Upton Sinclair proposed that all Standard Oil branches, wherever found, be
treated in the same way.
While a speaker at a meeting in the open below 26 Broadway was suggesting
that young Mr. Rockefeller should commit suicide, Marie Ganz, who had
threatened to kill him and had been arrested for reiterating her threats, was
being arraigned in the Tombs court. Her arraignment was brief, a dispute
regarding the nature of the charge against the woman causing Magistrate Murphy
to adjourn the case to the morning. The papers made it appear that the prisoner
must plead to a misdemeanor, where the original charge was disorderly conduct.
“Becky” Would Torture Him
Her counsel intimated that when the complaint was finally straightened
out he would not offer any defence, but let the case go into Special Sessions
for trial. The prisoner left the court with “Becky” Edelson, who volunteered
the information that young Mr. Rockefeller ought to be tortured. All this time
the object of their venom was playing golf.
Two women whom rumor connects with the I.W.W arrived at Tarrytown by
the 11:10 train from New York yesterday morning. They carried two parcels
wrapped in heavy brown paper, according to a man who said he saw them get off
the train, and would answer no questions as to who they were or where they were
to stay. They were not followed and an effort is now being made to pick up some
trace of them.
Mr. Rockefeller’s place is guarded by a wire fence, which is eight feet
high, but carries spikes at too long intervals—every nine or ten feet—to
prevent scaling. No ladder would be necessary, if the intruder was agile
enough, and the knowledge of this is responsible for the number and vigilance
of the guards. Once over the wall, the hundred yards to the house—at least on a
dark night—would be comparatively clear, bushes and trees minimizing the risk
of detection.
For some weeks past masons and bricklayers have been at work on the
place and teamsters have been passing in and out. Though the work is by no
means finished, it has been suspended, it is said, to reduce the number of
those having access to the grounds.
The absence of the “mourners” who patrolled the estate Sunday has not
lessened the vigilance of the guards, who say they suspect a ruse to catch them
napping.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., himself seems less concerned about the
efforts against him than are his employers. He played golf yesterday morning
and spent the afternoon reading and strolling about the grounds. His physical
condition is much improved and his is expected to be at work again within the
week.
“On to Cleveland!”
In the meantime, “On to Cleveland” was the slogan adopted yesterday by
some of the “mourners’ brigade,” who believe that the Free Silence League is
not doing enough at present to convince young Mr. Rockefeller of its sympathy
with the striking Colorado coal miners.
“Joe” Cohen, an I.W.W. adherent, declared positively that he and a few
others would depart for Cleveland Friday night and that there they will
organize a branch of the picket movement. The Rockefellers’ church and their
home in that city, said Cohen, will be patrolled by “mourners.”
The picketing of 26 Broadway went on as usual yesterday, and a meeting
on Broadway a few feet south of the Standard Oil quarters was thrown in for
good measure. It was opened by Frank Lowe, of the Live and Let Live League, but
rapidly turned into an I.W.W. conclave when “Sam” Hartman, “Blond Dave”
Sullivan and others took charge.
Repudiates “Sweet Marie”
Frank Shay, secretary of the Free Silence Protest Committee, with
headquarters at 8 Trinity Place, issued a statement yesterday declaring that he
and his associates “are not in sympathy with Marie Ganz or any other agitator
who threatens the lives of Mr. Rockefeller or others connected with the
Standard Oil Company.”
A misunderstanding as to the nature of the charge upon which Marie Ganz
is being tried in connection with threats against the life of John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., yesterday brought the hearing of that fiery young person to
an abrupt halt and caused an adjournment to this morning to give Harold
Spielberg, her attorney, the opportunity to produce witnesses. Three hundred
I.W.W. followers were turned away.
1914.05.05: SHOOT ROCKEFELLER LIKE DOG IS THREAT OF MARIE GANZ
May 5, 1914
SHOOT ROCKEFELLER LIKE DOG IS THREAT OF MARIE GANZ
OIL KING’S COIN TAINTED WITH BLOOD
FIGHT LAUNCHED IN SENATE TO PREVENT ACCEPANCE [SIC] OF CONTRIBUTION
CHILDREN ARE IN TEARS
May Turn Down Aid for Boll Weevil and Farm Extension
WOULD SHOOT ROCKEFELLER
At. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s house in New
York a number of persons were arrested for performing the "mourning march
of the free silence movement" for the slain in the Colorado mine war.
"Beautiful Marie" Ganz, a companion
of Alexander Berkmann, the anarchist, who shot H. C. Frick, invaded John D.
'Rockefeller, Jr.'s office, New York, and threatened to shoot him if he did not
settle the mine war. She was ejected, and was mobbed in Bowling Green, where
she tried to make, a speech.
New York, May 4.—"Yesterday I was at the office of John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., and if I could have got him I would have shot him down like a
dog."
"These words Of Marie Ganz, voiced a protest against Rockefeller,
according to testimony of Irving Ettinger, police headquarters stenographer, at
the trial of a woman charged with disorderly conduct. She was arrested last
week, after making several fruitless attempts to see Rockefeller in connection
with the Colorado mine workers strike, and had addressed open air meetings. The
hearing will be continued till tomorrow.
Washington, D.C., May 4—A determined fight has been launched in the
Senate against the government accepting Rockefeller’s money, and aiding farm
demonstration and boll weevil extermination work.
Senator Lane declared that money of John D. Rockefeller was “covered
with blood and tears of women and children, shot down in the Colorado strike.”
Debate on the amendment of the agricultural appropriation bill was
pending when the senate adjourned. The amendment reported by the agricultural committee,
proposed an appropriation of $600,000 for farm demonstration and boll weevil work,
with a clause prohibiting contributions to the fund by individuals or
corporations.
At present the general education board, to which Rockefeller has given
millions, pays a portion of salaries to 600 government employees engaged in
this work.
1914.05.05: SINCLAIR TO WIDEN ROCKEFELLER WAR
May 5, 1914
SINCLAIR TO WIDEN ROCKEFELLER WAR
Wants “Mourners” Throughout Country to Aid Colorado Strikers.
“SWEET MARIE” IN COURT
Hitch Delays Trial of Woman for Threats to Kill Until Today
Upton Sinclair suggested yesterday that the plan of picketing Standard
Oil Company offices throughout the country with mourners be tried as a means of
impressing upon the officials of the company "the intense abhorrence with
which the American people regards their crimes."
It was at his suggestion that the offices at 26 Broadway have been
ticketed for nearly a week by men and women parading back and forth with crape
on their arms. He believes this has been effective so far as the local
officials are concerned and declares he will continue on duty until the
Colorado strike is settled. He sent this telegram yesterday to the national
secretary of the Socialist party:
"Cannot the Socialist party initiate a nationwide movement in
eight of the Colorado strikers, to bring home the masters of standard oil the
intense abhorrence with which the American people regard their crimes? Scores
of the telegrams have reached me suggesting this. There are branch offices of
the standard oil Company in every town."
Wants Crape Before Doors.
"Cannot you or the national executive committee recommend that
morning tickets appear before these offices? Cannot also solicit locals put
crate before the doors?"
Mr. Sinclair issued a statement last night describing interference with
the mourning pickets which, he intimated, were perpetrated by someone employed
by the Standard Oil company. He also took a shot at some of the persons who
have annexed themselves to his campaign in behalf of the Colorado miners. He
said he wanted to deny all connection with these disturbers.
He said that which he was walking quietly with a friend yesterday a
heavily built man walking in the opposite direction shouldered him with force
almost sufficient to knock him down. He said the same thing was done half an
hour later, and that Mrs. Sinclair recognized the man as one whom they had met
in the elevator when they went to visit Mr. Rockefeller and who has been seen
coming frequently from the standard Oil offices and whispering to policemen on
duty. Sinclair also complains that some of the women of his party have been
similarly treated.
“For several days,” he said, “we have been honored by the attentions of
a personage whom the newspapers have dubbed the “Tacoma Terror.” This young man
has distributed circulars, conversed noisily and otherwise made himself
conspicuous and today I learned from one of our followers that he is an
ex-labor spy.
“To our friends I wish to say that I have never known anything like the
testimonials of public sympathy that have come to us. “The invisible Government
of the United States has lost its nerve. For the first time since it began its
career the truth has been forced upon its hardened chiefs that there is a power
in the world greater than that of money. I have today been talking with three
men who stand close to the very inside of the ‘system’ and I know that if they
cannot break us they will have to arbitrate this strike.”
Marie Ganz Arraigned.
Sweet Marie Ganz was arraigned before Magistrate Murphy in the Tombs
court yesterday on a charge of disorderly conduct. Her friends and sympathizers
were not allowed in the court room About 200 of them followed her from a
meeting near the new Municipal Building, but when they reached the Criminal
Courts Building they were turned back by a squad of policemen. The court room
was cleared of all who had no business there.
It was the intention to try Miss Ganz on a simple charge of disorderly
conduct, such as is defined in the city Charter, but whoever drew the complaint
charged her with a violation of section 720 of the Penal Code, which also
defines disorderly conduct, but makes it a misdemeanor. A misdemeanor case goes
to Special Sessions and Harold Spielberg, counsel for Miss Ganz, was quick to
take advantage of the error. He declared that he was prepared to defend the
violation of the Penal Code, but not that of the city Charter. Magistrate
Murphy tried to remedy matters by crossing out the charge on the back of the
complaint, but Spielberg pointed out that his client should not therefore be
compelled to submit to the summary action of the Magistrate.
Case Adjourned Until Today
The case was adjourned until 2 o’clock this afternoon, when a
substitute complaint will be offered. Irving E. Ettinger, a police
stenographer, was in court with a record of the speech made by Miss Ganz at
Mulberry Bend Park on May 1 in which she said she intended to shoot John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., if he didn’t remedy conditions in Colorado.
Another protest organization was added yesterday to those which have
seized upon Mr. Sinclair’s mourning idea as a means of airing their particular
grievances. This was the Live and Let Live League. Frank how announced in
Bowling Green at the noon hour that he was the organizer and that he desired to
be known as “The Man of the Street.” He said he would address a big meeting on
Saturday in Battery place.
William Karlin, a Socialist lawyer, and Samuel Hartman, an I.W.W.
agitator, were other speakers. Another figure at the meeting was a fat boy
known as Dumpy Cohn. He tried to make a speech but his appearance so roused the
risibilities of the audience that he was forced to quit.
Secretary Frank Shay of the Free Silence League posted a notice at
headquarters in Trinity place yesterday in which he appealed to those who
volunteered to picket 26 Broadway to refrain from taking part in other meetings
in the vicinity.
POCANTICO
GUARDS DOUBLED
All Gates at Rockefeller Estate
Are Carefully Watched.
Tarrytown, N.Y., May 4—Although the I.W.W. agitators appeared at
Pocantico Hills today, the guards about the estate were doubled. At each gate
tow were on duty. Teams and workmen were allowed to enter, but after they had
passed in the gates were quickly locked.
It was said that John D. Rockefeller, Jr. was feeling better today and
visited a few stables.
John D. Rockefeller, his father did not play golf. He stayed indoors
all day. His secretary came from New York, and Mr. Rockefeller devoted his time
to business.
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