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Show UPTON SINCLAIR AND FOUR WOMEN FINED New York. April 80. Upton Sin clair and the four women, who were arrested with him in front of the Standard Oil building, while they pa-laded pa-laded as "'mourners" protesting against John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s policy pol-icy tn the Colorado mine war. weiv today found guilty of disorderly conduct con-duct and each was sentenced to pay a fine of $3 with the alternative of three days in jail. Sinclair, Mrs Doofo Listner and Mrs. Elizabeth Freeman, refused to pay the fine Mrs. Belle Zilverman and Mrs. Margaret Remington Char ter said they would pay. Sinclair made a speech in court. Baying i hat he was on the verge of a physical breakdown, but that not withstanding this hp would go to jail and begin a hunger strike. He was promptly locked tip Mrs. Sinclair joined the "mourn ers" In the rain this afternoon. She said she had heard her husband had been sent to jail but she considered it more important to march in from of thp Standard Oil building than to visit him. NeW York, N. V April 30. Marie Can a speaker for the Industrial Workers of the World, forced her way into an elevator in the Standard Oil building today and succeeded, after considerable parleying, in getting to Mr. Rockefeller's outer office. Then she sent in word that she wished to see him. An attendant told her neither nei-ther Mr. Rockefeller nor his secretary secre-tary had anything to say, and she left the building. |