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Show STRIKERS IS FIGHT One Man Killed and Nine Others Seriously Injured by Bullets and Bricks in Hunger and Strike Riot at Philadelphia Philadel-phia Sugar Refinery Plant. STRIKEBREAKERS ARE ATTACKED Police Attempt to Quell the Disorder, but It Becomes Necessary to Summon the Reserves, Who Are Compelled to Open Fire on the Rioters. ' v By International News Service. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 21. One man was killed and nine others seriously injured in-jured by bullets ami bricks in a food and strike riot between the police and strikers of the Franklin super refinery refin-ery tonight. The riot followed a demonstration by the wives and mothers of the strikers, who marched to the refinery crying for bread. The police dispersed the women, their action resulting in a pitched battle bat-tle between the women and the strikebreakers strike-breakers who were just leaving the refinery. re-finery. The entrance of the strike breakers into the fray between the police and the women brought hundreds of strikers strik-ers to the scene on the run. Each man was anxious to defend his women. The first sign of action was a volley of bricks aimed at the police and the strike-breakers, most of whom are negroes. ne-groes. A i'iot call was immediately sent to the city hall by the patrolmen, summoning mounted police to their aid. - When the mounted men arrived they faced a swirling crowd of men and women charging the police, who warned them back with drawn pistols. The mounted men rode among the crowd, but it was impossible to disperse them. In answer to the commands of the police, the strikers hurled bricks and clubs and whatever weapons they could find. Then the police opened fire, and the first man to drop was Mareiquenas Detkobzc. He died on the way to Mount Sinai hospital from a pistol wound. The women's demonstration, which reached a climax in the riot, was the result of a meeting held late in the afternoon at Lithuanian hall. There it was decided that the wives, mothers and daughters should march in a body to the refinery and demand .that the concessions sought by the strikers be granted. As they marched through the streets the women cried aloud that they were starving. "We want food!" they cried, and "our husbands want work." The first man injured during the fracas was Police Sergeant Jolly, whose jaw was broken with a brick." NEW YORK RIOTS CONTINUE, BUT IN MILDER FORM XKW YORK'. Feb. 21. Mayor Mitchel tonight Instructed the police, health and charities departments to make a thorough thor-ough invest! en tion of food conditions throughout the greater city and report to hlni Friday, when he will place before the board of estimate 'a request of east side housewives that $1,000,000 be appropriated ap-propriated by the city to buy food for distribution at reasonable prices. Tills action on the part of the mayor followed a resumption of rioting anion? housewives in various parts of the city and a visit to him of a committee of women, who declared their children were starving because of the high cost of foodstuffs:. food-stuffs:. The mayor informed the three municipal munici-pal depn rt ments that he wanted firsthand first-hand information re sard in? the situation, situa-tion, which was represented to him by t lie housewives an calling" for Immediate relief. His inst met ions to the officials I were to obtain all possible data concern-in? concern-in? the supplv of food actually avail- . able, its condition, sources from which drawn, both wholesale and retail market operations, the siote of the public health in all congested tenement districts, a nd other factors. The riotinc of housewives today, while-milder while-milder in form than that of yesterday, extended to terminal points of railroads, (Continued on Page Four.), WIVES OF STRIKERS 11 FIGHT' FOR FOOD (Continued from Page One.) where it had been reported several hundred hun-dred carloads of vegetables, chiefh- potatoes po-tatoes and onions, were 'm-ing withheld t'l om tiie markets. In the HrOwns ills section of Brooklyn, where a crowd o: angry women stormed d market plaer. peveral policemen .wie roughly handled and had to call for reserves to resci-: them. . ' "W'e are not criminals." the wome-i shouted when the reserves atfinpte-J lo disperse them. "We want breaii." The department of heal'.h lan issuing is-suing bulletins containing eugseat'.bns -lr-sinned to aid housewives in riit-etinsj lie present hi--ih pruts' 'i iie-jist of the iv.il-"letins iv.il-"letins pointe.1 out that a j.ound of potatoes pota-toes costs T cents and contains only o7u food units. v ' Three women were arretted in t1 e Bronx toniglit for a t; acting a not h-.-v woman, who iad emr-ed f:o:n a groe,-iv store caiTyiug a bag of potatoes. iou- -wives who had volimiivri d as ph'Ke; were i-osted in front of u'ro--ery ru.d c.-:. table stores in some of ; lv- poorer -t -lions of the citv tonight, d-.-ie: min-" 1 in enforce ,- boycott a;-iinst put.itocs. on."i:.-and on."i:.-and calj'ras-e until the prices were lowered, low-ered, i |
