Mass meeting of Unemployed April 4 1914 Union Square New York leaflet

[Text cut on printing block of black flag]

MASS MEETING
OF
UNEMPLOYED

Sat. APRIL 4th. 3 P.M.

UNION SQUARE

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Come to protest 
against the class 
verdict that railroaded 
Tannenbaum and 
others of our brothers 
to Prison
[Printer’s union ‘bug’]

[‘1914’ handwritten.

By January 1914 there were a quarter of a million out of work in New York City. Frank Tannenbaum, IWW member and anarchist had played a prominent role in organizing a series of marches of the unemployed to New York churches where they asked for accommodation and food. It wasn’t forthcoming and after a march in early March 1914 when the police were called Tannenbaum was sentenced to a year in prison for inciting to riot.

The April 4 rally advertised on the flier and called by the Conference of the Unemployed (formed at the Ferrer Center in New York) was aggressively broken up by the police with some of the demonstrators suffering brutal injuries at their hands.

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