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Show I0IEI1 Housewives on the East Side Maintain Their Boycott Against the Higher Prices and Beat Members of Their Own Sex Who Make Purchases. Pur-chases. TROUBLE OCCURS AT PHILADELPHIA Thousands cf Women of Foreign Birth Parade the Streets Upsetting Displays and Overturning Over-turning Push carts; Grocers and Butchers Close Shops. NEW YORK, Feb. 22. A national Vard of food control, with powers to Vresulate farm labor conditions and the r distribution of products by the rail-iroads, rail-iroads, was urged here tonighin a :v:temeut by Joseph Hartigan, commissioner com-missioner of the city's bureau of weights and measures, as a means of relieving the present situation and reducing re-ducing prices. The commissioner said he did not believe an embargo on foodstuffs food-stuffs to foreign countries or a commission com-mission invested with power to fix prices would solve the problem. The underlying causes of the threatened threat-ened food famine, Commissioner Hartigan Harti-gan declared, were the shortage of farm labor and the increased cost of farming farm-ing implements and other articles necessary nec-essary for production. He suggested that if a national board of food control were formed it might be well to consider con-sider the feasibility of bringing farm labor here from the Philippines. Rioting Resumed. With respect to the situation in this city, where rioting was resumed today 1 by housewives in the more congested tenement districts, Commissioner Hartigan Har-tigan said financial action by a small group of public-spirited citizens could Epeedily bring relief. He added that he knew where large quantities of potatoes po-tatoes and onions could be purchased cheaply and sold here at cost. About 500 carloads of foodstuffs, consisting mainly of meat, poultry and potatoes, were reported to be due here tonight. Inspectors at Work. Hundreds of inspectors from various city departments were at work throughout through-out the city all day in an effort to obtain all information possible for pres-entation pres-entation to the mayor and board of es-Wiates es-Wiates tomorrow. Some of them re- Eorted that decayed vegetables were eing sold on the east side to persons too poor to buy food. The, presence of the i inspectors apparently had no sobering sober-ing effect on east side housewives, who proclaimed a boycott against the higher priced foodstuffs. In many instances women emerging from shops with foodstuffs food-stuffs were beaten by members of their own sex. A number of arrests were made. Expert Suggestions. The department of health issued another an-other bulletin tonight containing suggestions sug-gestions for reducing the cost of living. Ur. Charles F. Boulduan, director of the bureau of public health education, in a statement to housewives, said: "Three heaping tablespoonfuls of macaroni baked with cheese contains as many food units as one-half a pound of lean roast beef. "Three heaping tablespoonfuls of beans contain the same number of food unirs as two and one-half ounces of roast iamb. "One-half pint of split pea soup contains con-tains more food units than six ounces of. hamburger steak. hn;'J,Wn- hpaPin? tablespoonfuls of .,16, contain as many food units astwo and one-half boiled eggs. ffrannLVTi hea,inK tablespoonfuls of SnlH a, )'i"iKar, C0,ntai" as ' fuel fir L, h a rb ?hoPs from whi"c1' the iat has been eliminated." FOREIGN WOMEN OF PHILADELPHIA BECOME RIOTOUS PHILADELPHIA. Feb. M.-Tl.ousands or women In tile southern section of the r,ty where tlie residents ar-; laruelv of foreign ulrth. shouted protects asainst W high food prices today as tiiev paraded in unorganized fashion, up) ;ttlnt' food (-lutlcuea on Page j'wo.) WOMEN OF HEW YORK CONTINUE RIOTOUS (Continued from Fag On.) , t . , .... .. dipptays and overturning push carts. Stores were entered and damaged tn some instances. A crowd of women rushed a fish store and upset a tank of live carp. Kerosene Kero-sene was poured on other fish and the store fixtures were badly damaged. The police forced back the crowd and arrested three women. Similar scenes were repeated in the northeastern part of the city, also Inhabited In-habited largely by foreigners, and scores of push cart vendors lost their wares. Many grocers and butchers closed their shops. During an attark downtown on several teams loaded with food supplies a boy was hit in the face by a milk bottle and severely Injured. A report that a man had been shot proved untrue, |