An Army of Church Invaders.

"Six hundred unemployed men crept into the Labor Temple at Second Avenue and Fourteenth Street last night, while the lights were out for a moving picture show," The New York Times reported on 1 March 1914. When asked what they wanted, their leader, Frank Tannenbaum, replied, "We have come to take possession of this place for the night. We intend to stay. . . . If you try to put us out, the floor of this place will run with blood." The church capitulated somewhat to the demand, agreeing to house sixty-five men who said they had nowhere else to sleep for the night and peacefully dispersing the rest. Between 1 March and 5 March, Tannenbaum led his "army of the unemployed" into a series of churches in New York City, demanding food and shelter. They were welcomed by...