Bomb case casts shadows on New York anarchist links
Cohen remains in Bellevue Hospital after a bomb blast in Union Square. Berkman denies ties to the attack and Emma Goldman is said to be in the West. Police probe letters between Cohen and Berkman while Socialist leaders denounce police brutality and defend peaceful unemployment demonstrations.
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Mother Earth
Berkman
Cohen
Brooklyn
Morgan
Goldman
West
Bellevue
Shrady
Bellevue Hospital
Bomb Explodes Before Home of Simon Fougleson
In Newton New Jersey on March 29 a bomb exploded in front of Simon Fougleson’s home at Franklin Furnace near town at midnight Saturday. The porch and front of the building were damaged with no injuries. Fougleson says he knows of no one who would wish him harm.
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N. J
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Franklin Furnace
Here
Fougleson
Socialist claim police provoked Union Square riot in 1908
The Socialist party says Inspector Schmittberger and the police provoked the Union Square mass meeting on March 28, 1908, by dispersing demonstrators and using force. They allege the bomb killed two as police charged crowds, and condemn the Park Department permit denial as unlawful while asserting socialists acted lawfully.
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Cohen
Shrady
Socialist Party
Temple of Labor
East Sith Street
Unemployed Conference
New York City
Union Square
Schmittberger
Lexow Committee
Socialist Party of
New York County
Central Federated Union
Rudolf Modest
Executive Committee
Park Department
Industrial Workers of the World
Modest
Paulitsch
Police denials on clubbing charges at Union Square
Inspector Max Schmittberger denied accusations from Jewish papers that police brutalized crowds at Union Square Park. He asserted no orders for clubbing were given and that mounted officers did not use clubs while dispersing the crowd. He called the story false and urged curb on anarchistic elements.
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Max Schmittberger
Union Square Park
Schmittberger
Socialists at Flamiston professor talk turns chaotic
A Cooper Union audience including socialists detectives and plainclothes men clashed as Rev Dr M Woolsey Stryker and Prof Charles Sprague Smith answered questions on democracy, Union Square incidents, and authority, with disorder and dispersed student demonstrators.
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M. Woolsey Stryker
Flamiston College
Cooper Union
Charles Sprague Smith
Stryker
Union Square
Smith
Thomas R. Slicer
Schmittberger
United States
Professor Smith
Portugal
Russia
Burfevid
Socialist Delegates Denounce Police Work at Union Square Meeting
Central Federated Union delegates debated the Union Square bomb incident. A socialist criticized police actions and urged no city permit restrictions while others opposed automatic blame on authorities.
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Union Square
Socialists Convene and Defend Police at Union Square
The Jewish Daily Warchirts office in Broadway hosted editors and Socialist Party members who condemn Saturday’s Union Square clash and urge peace. Bernard Felderman repeats Cohen did not throw the bomb. A district Socialist HQ crowd notes Minnie Folonia arrested, with a meeting planned at 58 Forsythe Street where she is expected to speak.
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Hildebrand
Silverstein
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Weinstock
Arbeter Ringe
Anarchists Make Their Headquarters, Especially Along First and Second Avenues
East
Pacific
New Pythagoras
East Broadway
Union Square
Schmittberger
Socialist Party
Labor Temple
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Warchirts
Broadway
Bernard Felderman
Tribune
Elderman
No. RR East
Grand Street
Minnie Folonia
Forsythe Street
March Month of Rebellion in Emma Goldman Paper
In the March issue of Mother Earth, Hippolyte Havel prophesies a renewed rebellion and awakening of the downtrodden. He envisions workers marching past bourgeois apathy, honoring past heroes while preparing to emulate their example and claim independence from starvation.
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Mother Earth
Emma Goldman
Hippolyte Havel
Alexander Berkman
Cotton mills plan 1% wage cut across Plainfield area
Plainfield Connecticut reports that Wauregen Danielson Quinnehaug Mill Williamsville and other smaller mills employing about 26 hands will go to a 1 percent wage reduction tomorrow.
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Plainfield
Conn
Wauregen
Danielson
Quinnehaug
Williamsville
Geo
Unemployment Probe Proposed by Settlement Workers
A bill to create a state unemployment commission was introduced in the Assembly and planned for the Senate. The five member panel would study causes of unemployment, collect data, report to the 1969 Legislature, and operate with pay provided, funded by a $20,000 appropriation.
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Assembly
Senate
F. J Warne
Civic Federation
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Hudson Guild
James H. Hamilton
Henry Moskowitz
B. F. Lewis
Charles Sprague Smith
People's Institute
Edward T. Devine
Charity Organization Society
de. Warne
Warne
Robert Hunter
East Side
Powder used in bomb Cohen’s device misfiled nitroglycerine
Explosives experts say Cohen’s bomb lacked nitroglycerine and likely used black or detonating powder or chemicals to be set off by a fuse. Drugstore owner denies selling nitro and notes Cohen may have used chloride of potassium sulfur and saltpetre. A cousin describes Cohen’s heart disease and charity acts. a patrolman recalls Cohen walking barefoot to help a tramp days before the blast.
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Cohen
the Tribune
Edward Miller
Williamsburg
Gussie Alexander
Beaver Street
Henry Kane
No. 23
Bushwick Avenue
Ralph Avenue
Brooklyn
Weather delays hit liners Celtic and Philadelphia arrival
The White Star liner Celtic and the Philadelphia of the American Line failed to reach port as scheduled due to bad weather. Celtic encountered a gale after leaving Queenstown and logged modest speeds, covering 2893 miles in 8 days 19 hours 20 minutes. both ships sustained no damage and reached port yesterday.
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White Star Hner Celtic
Philadelphia
Celtic
Queenstown
Atlantic
Whiskey death and rescue in Harlem Hospital case
Patrick McBride of 2074 Second Avenue died after consuming a gallon of whiskey. Francis King of 26 East West Street was revived after surgeons at Harlem Hospital removed a gallon of whiskey from his system during an intoxication arrest. The drink was supplied by Thomas Moloney at 1920 First Avenue, with King transporting it toward Lexing ton Avenue when he met McBride.
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Patrick McBride
Second Avenue
Francis King
East West Street
Harlem Hospital
King
Thomas Moloney
First Avenue
Moloney
Lexington Avenue
Albany Week Pressures on Hughes Race Gambling Bills
The Senate will decide whether to advance anti racetrack gambling bills with a September 1 or immediate effective date. The push includes a Penal Code change and Senate battles over banking reform and public service broadenings. A separate hearing weighs telecom and transport regulation ahead of possible extra sessions and investigations into Attorney General Jackson.
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Albany
Hughee
Senate
Iughes
Georges B. Agnew
New York
McCarren
Hughes
App
Assembly
Jackson
Public Service Commissions
Hama
Fancher
Armstrong Insurance
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