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Show TEXTILE STRIKERS CLSSMWITH POLICE Conflict at Little Falls, N. Y., During- Session. of State Board of Arbitration. LITTLE FALLS, Js T., Dec 2S. With the state board of arbitration sitting as mediators, on tho strike of the textilo workers," hundreds of strikers gathered in the streets today and clashed with the police. The first conflict came at the Phoenix mills, where tho polico cleared the sidewalks of massed pickets; j tho second on Main street, whero they I dispersed tho strikers' parade. During tho nccond demonstration ono of the strikers, lying prone on the sidewalk, side-walk, refused to move. Women In tho Eroccsslon began to scream that ho had een clubbed, but this was denied. The board continued taking testimony of strikers today. Annie Kokls, a ma-chjne ma-chjne operative at the Phoenix mills, testified tes-tified that Chief of Police Long threw quarters tho day the strlko was called, a hen. she continued, he threw three girls on top of her, This was while ho was raiding tho building to find the strike leaders. Yesterday, she added, a policeman police-man attempted to flirt with her while she was on picket duty. She told the bluccoat she was married and took her husband a arm. Her husband, she said, was Immediately clubbed. Mrs. Annlo Malarlk, who said she was ?4 years eld und earned $4 a week, testified tes-tified she and her husband lived In an . olght-room house with twonty-thron other persons. They slept three or four in a bed. she said. Hlseolytum Kotarae, who said he made ?S.9 a week by working five nlshts, compared tho police of Little Falls with the Russian Cossacks. "In UuBsla." he declared, "the Cos&acks u.10 their fists. out here the police ueo their clubs." Tho hearing was adjourned until Monday. |