| Show I I BLAME LAI POLICE OLICE FOR THE RIOT IN INNE NEW Socialists Say Their Meeting Was Called for Benefi Beneficent Beneficent Beneficent cent Purpose REPUDIATE SYMPATHY WITH BOMB THROWER STILL ALIYE ALIVE STATEMENT STATEMENT OF ROBERT HUNTER New Now Yok Match 29 Robert Hunt Hunter er err the the noted sociologist tonight de do declared dared that he was not only present at yesterdays demonstration of or the unemployed in Union square that ended in a bomb explosion but that had opportunity offered he would have hao addressed ad the crowd in defiance of po police lice Ike e prohibition and so brought about a test in the courts of the right of free speech It had been advertIsed adver 1 e that Mr Hunter would address the meet meeting meetIng meeting ing but in the excitement that tel fol followed 01 lowed the action of the police in driving ing the crowds from the square he was lost sight of and not until today wag wite it generally known that the set sot settlement settlement worker worter was on hand prepared prep red to carry carl out this part of the program even if it led to his arrest Determined to Speak Mr Ir Hunters position In the whole matter was set forth in a over his signature given to th the Asso AStO Associated elated Press Prees The writer the outrage of the bomb and rotors to its author as a fanatic who has in injured Injured injured the cause of the unemployed Mr Ir Hunter says until he arrived arr cd tit it the square he was Ignorant of the fact that had been forbid forbidden forbidden forbidden den He learned this of the police poll and then determined to speak in or order ordet tier der that the right of peaceful assem assembly assembly bly bl and free speech might be tested in inthe the courts He adds that he lie had no chance to be heard for presently the police charged the crowd with in incredible Incredible incredible credible brutality Mr Hunter de describes describes describes scribes his own escape from under a 8 horses hoods tells teUs how he lie was dragged by officers from the stops of ofa a building from which he Ise had ha hoped to 10 speak and how flOW what was wag intended as a peaceful assembly in furtherance of aid for the unemployed was broken up with a scene that he ho thought could not be duplicated outside ur of Ru May Survive This proved to a busy Sunday for forthe forthe forthe the police pollee and the Socialists who ho were responsible for yesterdays demonstration tion There was no act of violence or disturbance of any an sort but the po 10 police lice were busy looking up the record of the bomb thrower and others under cunder und r arrest while the Socialists were as ac active active active tive in repudiating sympathy fth atis the outrage and knowledge of the perpetrator Selig the youth in whose hands the bomb exploded as ho was about to hurl it at Captain Miles Mile OReilly and his squad of twenty man nion was still alive In Bellevue hospital l to tonight tonight tonight night Though the explosion km tore off his right hand temporarily temp blinded him and caused frightful bodily InJuries ries rica he may survive As yot t he can cannot I ethi ri not see but the sight of one ori o eye may my be restored Arrested Men Arraigned Arr Seven men arrested after the bomb explosion were were arraigned in court to toOf day Of Or the number six called thorn selves Russians One of them American The foreigners were hole hola in bail bali each for further exam while the American was wa held h without bail They were charged with taking part in a riot The police today toda examined a half dozen persons including S editor of Frel Frei Arbiter All Ali declared that they had advocated pence peace In the adjustment of Industrial dis disputes disputes disputes The general of the local focal Socialist party met today and set forth their side of the story They The claimed that the meeting was made up of law abiding persons and aid accuse the tile police of ot inciting the people to riot Many Inny statements were Issued by individuals all deploring the act of violence and all aU taking the police to account The Socialist view of the matter is IsI I Continued on Page 2 BLAME POLICE FOR FORTHE FORTHE FORTHE THE RIOT IN NEW YORK Continued from Page 1 best summed up by Robert Hunter whose statement follows It Is needless to say that every So Socialist deplores the outrage of yester yesterday yesterday yesterday day In Union square The fanatic who threw the bomb has no only injured himself and threatened the lives lIes of or others but he has made it impossible for tor the time public to consider calmly the two Important questions that the So Socialist Socialists were attempting to bring to the notice of the public If It the poor creature was interested In the rights of ot the unemployed or In the rights of free speech he could hardly hard have chosen a more effective method of In Injuring Injuring injuring juring these causes As my name has been mentioned so prominently In con connection on with the unemployed demon demonstration 1 I feel It my duty dut to make male a statement concerning the tire purposes of the meeting as as I understand them Purpose of the Meeting It Is the opinion of persons persona that at least two hundred thou thousand thousand thousand sand are now unemployed In New York City Most of or them have been with without without without out work for three months at least This means that many man of them are facing starvation Various attempts att have been beer made to call the attention of the public authorities to this wide wid widespread widespread spread misery The Socialists felt that the most effective way of attracting public attention to the question Qu was wa to have a mass meeting This has been done and is being done in most clies cl les lesof of Europe There seemed no good rea rca reason rEason son why It should not be done In Now low York City It was my intention and that of my friends to discuss the problem problem lem iem of ot unemployment to state the facts s sas as we know them and to pass reso resolutions resolutions resolutions urging the city and state au authorities authorities authorities to provide work If It the meet meeting meetIng meeting ing had been allowed to proceed peace peaceably peaceably ably abl as they the are allowed in many other countries there Is no reason why the tIe gathering should not have made a pro profound pr found Impression and materially Il aided ald d the cause of at the unemployed It was intended that the meeting should be absolutely peaceable exercising the right of or free assembly to state the grievances of oC the unemployed This ThIs was the primary causes of or the meet meetIng meeting Ing The Neighborhood Workers association association tion composed of all the charity and sociological organizations in the city announced today that a bill had been bel prepared by b the association for intro introduction Introduction introduction In the legislature providing for forthe forthe forthe the appointment of a commission to inquire Into the condition of the unemployed played and making an appropriation to successfully carry out a project of or re relief relief relief lief Statement of Inspector Inspector who Iho had bind charge of the handling of the crowds in Union square tonight said saidI I 1 gave no clubbing orders to any of oC my men and I am positive none of my m mounted men drew their clubs while scattering the tIme crowd That Is a story stry tr trout out of the whole cloth While I be believe believe believe lieve something ought to be done and that quickly to curb the anarchistic tendencies of some of these people I 1 do donot donot o not and never did advocate the whole wholesale wholesale sale clubbing of innocent bystanders to effect the dispersal of crowds that col collect collect collect lect The body of Ignatz Ignats Hildebrand the only person by the bomb explosion sion was given to his wife wite and taken to Orange N J for burial Mrs Hilde Hildebrand Hildebrand brand said that her husband had b m mIn In this country thirty years ears that thai he was a Republican and so 50 far as Mme he knew always voted that ticket The police pollee did not make much flood nead floodway way today with woo 1110 though able abbe to talk would not discuss His act He appeared Indifferent to hs fate and when asked if he would t see fee ee his two sisters who had called culled at the hospital replied I 1 dp not want to see them and could coul not if I r wanted to They can see me if they wish He exchanged a few fe words with Ith one of or the girls From the sisters the po police police lice learned that was but 19 years old The brother and sisters came carne to this country they said lve le years care ago adopting their mothers maiden malden name The elder girl added My M brother was sickly and nd was WIlS al at always always ways complaining of or Ills his station In lIf lIflIe He lIe read Socialistic papers and studied a great deal At one time he was was in interested Int t ested In chemistry He often tum turn of pains In hs hIs head I w be glad now If It my brother would die lie lieHe He has always awas been ill III and has bas been a great worry for us Three drivers arres arrested d for reusing refusing yesterday ay tp remove their trucks from which attempts to speak were U ti have been made were Iere fined Jl I 1 each to today toda today day da The Seven Prisoners The Tho seven prisoners pr held for further examination described themselves as follows Samuel 21 printer Max Dol Dot DolInger Inger IS 18 furrier Walter 27 2 i ma machinist machinist Max 28 25 machinist Meyer Segil 22 baker Seer Greenburg 23 tailor George Robertson 9 cook Late tonight Alexander Berkman was found in hi his rooms In East Thirteenth street When hen asked the letters found In n room he said ald saidI aldI I dont know how that fellow ob oh obtained obtained tamed those letters I have never ne r heard of ot but It is possible that he may have got a few of or my letters making arrangements to ad address address dress dr ss groups In Brooklyn If It the po police lice licO lIC have bave any letters I Invite their publicity There is nothing rabid or In Inflammatory inflammatOry inflammatory In them Replying to further questions question he said Miss Goldman Is at it present pre ent In iii tilE tue west She he has lt to do 49 d with this thi thing This meeting was w s run by the duo Socialists Q and I was not invited to speak Berkman dented denied d that tut t t he was vas pear Union Square park par nar yesterday Consulted the Inspector When hen I 1 arrived a at the tho sq are I Ionly Ion Ionly only on knew from a newspaper report that no permit had been obtained It appears from the toe reports that the time un unemployed unemployed unemployed employed conference had decided to postpone the meeting I was not In Informed Informed informed formed of ot this action and I consulted Inspector concerning our right in the matter He said that instructions had been given to prevent any meeting Without knowing the law it seemed to me a violation of the time constitution to prevent a peaceful as assembly assembly assembly and the right of ot free speech It seemed to me time the best plan to de determine determine determine termine the law In the matter was to tobe tobe tobe be arrested for speaking and to test the matter in the courts I Informed the time inspector therefore that I should hould endeavor to speak There was how however however however ever no chance Crowd Kept Moving The crowd was kept moving and finally several thousand men and wo women women women men were marching In a circle around the square As a very ver considerable portion of the crowd approached Sev Seventeenth Seventeenth Seventeenth street and Union Square East a score of ot policemen on foot and andas andas andas as many man on horseback charged the crowd with incredible brutality The people were rushed Into Seventeenth street fleeing from the clubs of the po policemen policemen and almost under the hoofs of the time horses They were dispersing about as fast as possible but the poy po police police lice seemed not content and two or three on horseback rode even down the sidewalks driving men women and children before them The sight was one which I think could not be duplicated outside of Russia Not all an of the policemen could be blamed They were acting under orders and some of or them were as kind as possible under the circum circumstances circumstances circumstances stances A few of ot them as fanatical and as fiendish as Cossacks I do not know If It any an of the spectators were seriously Injured but it Is a mir miracle miracle miracle acle if It some were not No rode up and down the sidewalks like a madman Some of the police pollee ex expressed expressed expressed pressed their disapproval of ot the brutality Resentment and Bitterness Up Gp to this time no one so far as asI asI asi I i saw sa was making any disturbance creating any an or using the methods of anarchy except a portion of the police pollee It Is no wonder that there should have hae been resentment and bitterness Some Sonic were livid with rage A lad working on a building asked me if this was a mas inns massacre massacre sacre People shouted Is this Rus Russia Rusala ala sia Is this a free country countr Being driven amid protect down the streets with the crowd and finding It impossible Impossible sible to argue with a horse which was about to run me down I climbed up some steps and attempted to address the crowd Several policemen caught me and dragged me from the steps Would Have Been No Violence It Is to be profoundly regretted re that the police saw fit to break up what was was Intended to be a peaceable assembly They had an unquestioned right to arrest any anyone one who was vio violent violent yb lent and to stop any anyone one talking who was urging violence I am firmly firm con convinced convinced convinced vinced that if the crowd had been per permitted permitted permitted to use the square and the po police police police lice had regulated it as they would have d any nn other assembly there timers would have hae been no violence and very ery likely the poor fanatic who threw the bomb would not have hae had the tho courage nor the Incentive to blow blowup blo blowup up policemen who were orderly and peaceable As It Is now the police pollee brutality and the time outrage make it impossible to discuss the dire need of the tho scores of thousands of unemployed men It ItIs ItIs ItIs Is In the Interests of peace and con eon content content tent that the Socialists work when they urge that employment be given to these man many unfortunate and stricken people Bomb Throwing Denounced Loaders Leaders L of or the American committee of the Russian Rus ian Revolutionist society denounced the bomb throwing as an outrage and as a hard blow to the success of their cause In this country at a meeting held in the Murray Hill Hili Lyceum today in memory of Gregory the revolutionist who died In Switzerland recently The committee of the Socialist party met before daylight today toda and named a subcommittee of seven seen to learn the motives if possible of ot None had ever heard of ot the bomb thrower and all aU regretted his act The Th committee of Inquiry was composed of Robert Hunter Algernon Lee editor of ot The Worker J editor of Magazine Moses Oppen Oppenheimer Oppenheimer heimer helmer a Socialist writer and amid Henry HenryJ Reu J Thomas J 7 Lewis and Morris |
