SCENE IN NEW YORK.

Mataura Ensign, 13 May 1914, Page 5

SCENE IN NEW YORK.

CHURCH STORMED.

SOCIALISTS & MR ROCKEFELLER.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COPYBIQHT. TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES. Received May 13, 8.30 a.m. NEW YORK, May 12. Socialists stormed the Calvary Bap* tist Churchy which is patronised by Mr J. D. Rockefeller (the Fists were freely used in the aisles, on© leader being pitched on his face on the pavement. The pastor stood silent in the pulpit. None of the Rockefellers were present. A Portuguese, raising his arms, shrieked, "This is the house of hell." '

A demonstration was recently made against Mr Rockefeller's attitude in connection with the strike of miners at Colorado, where he has considerable interests, outside the offices of Mr Rockefeller, jun. A number of the demonstrators were arrested, including Mr Upton Sinclair (author of "The Jungle") and his wife and children and M'iss Elizabeth Freeman, an English Suffragette. The Socialists had arranged to parade in front of the Rockefeller offices, wearing signs of mourning, but'the police intervened.