Show ammy HEADS ARE blokin IN RIOT OF THE RENTERS striking tenants of tenement als tracts in new york city engage in battle with the blue Blua coats now new york Inci incipient plent rent riots ajro 0 out on the cast side on sunday as a result of the tension between the landlords and the striking tenants and before tho the disorders were quelled by the police reserves which called from several precincts many combatants were injured and five were arrested the police used their clubs freely but there was no way to obtain the number of 0 injured as they hurried amily and were cared for by friends the disorders were general throughout the affected district the most serious trouble occurred on east eleventh street where a landlord who had been unable to collect rent ordered his tenants to remove the socialist flags with which strikers had decorated the buildings the landlord was hooted and jeered by tho tenants and other strikers who wore were holding a mass meeting I 1 in the house and he called the police the striking tenants resented the appearance of the off officers leers and in the clash that followed the reserves used their night sticks vigorously five protesting tenants somewhat battered werta arrested the offending decoration was removed hardly had order been restored at this point when the police reserves were hurried to east twelfth street where striking tenants wore were making a donion demonstration against a landlord who had objected to the flying of red hags flags over his property the crowd failed to obey tho the police order to disperse and was set upon with night sticks one woman it Is reported was rendered insensible during the fight in which the wives sand and daughters as aa well as aa the fathers and sona participated the police tried to gain entrance into the tenement but the strikers barricaded barricades barrica ded the door and a semblance of order having been restored the officers withdrew ambulances were summoned to care for the injured but the strikers declined to admit the physicians stating that they would call their own doctors |