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Show BOSTON IK LOOT STORES I Windows Broken, Goods Stolen as Police Go ! on Strike. j i HOSTOX, Sent. 9. Mob violence, chiefly in the form of window smashing, smash-ing, occurred in scattered sections of j the city within a few hours after the: union members of the nolice fore? went ' on strike tonight. The worst disturb- ! ance was in the South llosron district , but insi-cetion of the stores indicated j that only a few articles had been stolen j from the show windows. Tli? Met ropolitnn Park officers, who ! were sent to the district, drew their revolvers re-volvers as they approached the crowd, but did not fire. A few windows were broken in the (Dudley sticet police station in the Roxbury district, and in stores in the west and south ends. Policemen wore jeered and followed by crowds, largely made up of boys, when they left their stations. Near lone station boys pelted the patrolmen !with mud. It was estimated that about 1 Sfi per cent of the policemen joined in the strike. Tli? streets were guarded tonight by sergeants and higher officers of the department, de-partment, assisted by state poliee and Mel ropolitnn Park police. The volunteer police force, which has bton recruited iu the last few days, will go on duty tomorrow morning. No movement hud boon made tonight toward calling out members of the state guard for police duty. The secretaries of both Governor Coolidge and Mayor IVtrrs intimated that no such action was likelv for the present. Several 'business men who had been Informed In-formed of the situation came Into the city late tonight n"d t,)ok personal charge of arrangements to puard their stores. It was estimatnil that thousands of dollars' dol-lars' worth of i;oods had been stolen. After the close of the policemen's union meeting tonight, John F. Jdelnnes, president presi-dent of the union, said that a group of twenty pickets for each police station had been appointed to do duty in groups of five and to be relieved every four hours. Vie said that more than 1-iuO men wo iv on strike. Hanks and larfje busin.-ss houses have organized guards from anionic their employees. em-ployees. These guards have been maiie special policemen and armed. Federal authorities are jjuardiiip: all government property, while Oowniur Cool id ice ordered ion Metropolian Park policemen to report re-port for duty in the city. There are 1;M4 patrolmen, including special officers, in the police department. (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) iVIOBS IN BOSTON ARE LOOTING STORES (Continued From Page One.) The announcement of the union strike vote showed that 1136 men had participated partici-pated in the balloting, and union leaders claimed a stil! larger membership. -The ninety -six captains, inspectors, lieutenants lieuten-ants and sergeants are not affected. The Immediate cause of the strike is the refusal of Commissioner Curtis to sanction sanc-tion the policemen's union because of its affiliation wilh the American Federation of Labor. Before its formation he had issued an order that the patrolmen should not become affiliated with any outside organization. Charges of having violated this order were brought against nineteen officers and members of the union. |