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.

1914.06.04: 500 WAIT TO DUCK I.W.W. MEN IN RIVER

June 4, 1914

500 WAIT TO DUCK I.W.W. MEN IN RIVER

Tar Laid in Tarrytown Square to Balk Agitators for Whom Guards Watch Station.

RECTOR WITHDRAWS OFFER

Mr. Cates, Submitting to Trustees, Cancels Berkman Invitation to Church--Row In White Plains.

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1914.05.02: WORKERS ASSAIL AGITATORS.

May 2, 1914

WORKERS ASSAIL AGITATORS.

Socialist Labor Speakers Denounce I.W.W. and "Unemployed."

Article about what Socialist Labor thought of I.W.W.

1914.03.07: SENTENCES TWO RIOTERS

March 7, 1914

SENTENCES TWO RIOTERS

Starch Taken Out Of I.W.W. Leaders By City Magistrate

TANNENBAUM IN CELL

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1914.03.06: THREATEN FURTHER RIOTING

March 6, 1914
THREATEN FURTHER RIOTING
Industrial Workers Who Invade Church Promise More Trouble.
HAYWOOD BACK OF MOVEMENT
Frank Tannenbaum, Who Led Mob Into New York Church, Held on Charge of Inciting Riot--Followers in Jail.

1914.03.05: MOB, STORMING CHURCH, JAILED

March 5, 1914

MOB, STORMING CHURCH, JAILED

I.W.W. Army of 200 Unemployed Arrested Inside Edifice.

ONE HAD $700 IN POCKET

Frank Tannenbaum, Leader, Held on $5,000 Bail, Says Organization Will Back Him Up.

New York, March 4.—Frank Tannenbaum and more that 200 of his hungry followers were arrested tonight after storming and taking possession of St. Alphonsus’ Catholic Church in West Broadway.

In the sodden, motley crowd there was a woman, Miss Gussie Miller, who has lately joined the I.W.W. agitator’s cabinet and Hyman Finklestein, a forlorn looking tailor in whose pocket was found $700 in bills of large and small denomination.

The mob-riotous, ragged and on the verge of fighting the eighty policemen who came to the church, was taken to McDougal street and Beech street police stations, where an assortment of weapons was taken from them. Razors, slung-shots, sandbags, iron bolts, bits of jagged glass, shears huge knives and cast-iron nuts on strings were among the confiscated weapons. A good-sized basketful of like weapons were gathered from the floor of the church after the capture.

Against Tannenbaum and the leaders of the mob were preferred charges of inciting to riot, unlawful entry and disturbing the peace.

Tannenbaum was ripe for just such an outbreak. This afternoon he declared that I.W.W. officials had told him that he might carry out his ideas with full assurances that there would be money and lawyers to help him.

“Something Doing,” He Says.

“There will be something doing,” said Tannenbaum. A picturesque horde of idle men assembled in Rutger’s Park at 6:30 to follow the youthful agitator wither he might lead.

Tannenbaum aroused them by his fiery pictures of their social level. Miss Jane Est, who loudly declared herself to be a militant suffragette followed Tannenbaum and the crown roared approval of her forensic pyrotechnics. Fully 700 men followed Tannenbaum over Spring street. At Allen street the mob assailed a double team when the driver refused to halt to let them pass.

At West Broadway Tannenbaum with Miss Miller at his side turned north. Detective Capt. Gilday and Detective Lieut. Geegan told Tannenbaum he would be arrested if he made any attempt to enter a place unbidden.

“We take no orders from the slaves of capital” was his reply.

The usual Lenten evening service was in progress in St. Alphonsus. The mob swarmed up the stairs of the church. They swept into the lofty ceilinged, dimly lighted auditorium.  They rushed up the stone floor taking in all three aisles. They clamored over the pews brushing aside women who struggled to get out or seek safety near the altar rail.

“Bring on the eats!” yelled a gigantic youth.

“Less noise, boys,” cried Tannenbaum. “Remember this is a church.”

Gilday and Geegan grasped Tannenbaum by the arm and whirled him around. Tannenbaum was hustled into the priest’s house, where he and Miss Est and half a dozen reporters awaited Geegan, who went for Rev. Schneider, pastor.

Tannenbaum was debonair when Father Schneider appeared with Geegan. Tannenbaum’s demand for food and shelter in the church was refused. This led to a harangued against the church and society, and finally Tannenbaum and Miss Est were taken back to the church.

One Is “Millionnaire.”

Tannenbaum, beginning to realize the fact that he was a prisoner, began to calm. He bade Miss Est to be less noisy and shouted to his fellows that they should observe order and do what they police told them to do.

Then began a strange scene. Down the steps of the church, two at a time, the captured followers of a boy, on whose face there is neither sign nor promise of beard, were hustled into patrol wagons.

Tannenbaum gave his age as twenty-one; his occupation, a waiter. He declared that he had no home, but later declared his parents lived on a farm in Sullivan County, N.Y.

The first prisoner to be docketed was Hyman Finklestein. He declared himself a machinist. He is twenty-nine years old. When the huge mass of bills-more than $700—was found in his breast pocket, a murmur arose from the mob behind him.

“You’re a millionaire,” declared the lieutenant. “Why are you pan-handling? Why are you hungry? Where did you get that?”

“Oh, I’m on the level,” answered Finklestein. “I saved it while I was working. I will not spend it. It is not for me to spend it. It is not for me to spend my money when there are others with so much more.”

Miss Est made heroic efforts to be arrested. She even went so far as to clamber upon the steps of one of the patrol wagons. But a policeman shoved her aside. She loudly protested against “such discrimination,” and declared that she would go to the court and demanded that she be treated as are the rest. Tannenbaum was held in $5,000 bail for hearing today.

1914.03.05: MANY UNEMPLOYED IN NEW YORK JAILS.

March 5, 1914

MANY UNEMPLOYED IN NEW YORK JAILS.

Nearly 200 Held in Bail for Disorderly Conduct.

Army Arrested at St. Alphonsus, Where Priest Refused Their Demand.

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1914.03.05: ARMY OF UNEMPLOYED GUESTS OF NEW YORK

March 5, 1914

ARMY OF UNEMPLOYED GUESTS OF NEW YORK

ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY ARRESTED IN CHURCH.

Arrests Follow Invasion of Catholic church During Services--To Have Hearing Today.

New York, N.Y., March 5.--A majority of the members of the army of unemployed that has been demanding food and shelter in raids on churches every night for the past week, are today the guests of the city in several downtown jails. Each city in several downtown jails. Each of the 190 men and one woman is held in $1,000 bail for hearing late today on charges of disorderly conduct. Frank Tannenbaum, the youthful leader of the army faces a charge of inciting to riot, which is a felony. His bail was fixed at $5,000 and being unable to furnish it, he, too, is a prisoner.

1914.03.05: MOB ARRESTED FOR RIOTING IN CHURCH

March 5, 1914

MOB ARRESTED FOR RIOTING IN CHURCH

190 Unemployed Headed by I.W.W. Agitator, Ignored Warnings and Made Raid on New York Church--Each Held in $1000

New York, March 5--Unshaven and defiant, Frank Tannenbaum, erstwhile waiter, but now leader of an army of unemployed which, under the banners of the Industrial Workers of the World, stormed New York churches nightly until the police interfered, was brought into Jefferson Market police court today for arraignment on a charge of inviting riot. Nearly 200 of his followers held during the night in three separate prisons were to appear later in the Tombs court, farther down town, all charged with disorderly conduct.

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