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Show GIRL STRIKE-BREAKERS IN CLOTHING DISTRICT . I CHICAGO. March 17. Girl leaders have escorted hundreds of frightened strike breakers to safety from the big clothing factories in the wholesale district, dis-trict, which were besieged by 400 garment gar-ment workers pickets. The employers adopted this strategy successfully when it was feared the police would be unable un-able to prevent a serious clash between the unlcn and non-union factions. From the workrooms of the International Interna-tional Tailoring company, and of Fred Kaufman, the young women marched through crowds of Jeering strikers without flinching. Behind them were the men employees. After it was thought the disturbances disturb-ances were ended plate glass windows valued at $500 in the offices of Lamm & Co. were shattered by strikers who souprht revenge for the arrest of rioting pickets an hour earlier. Solomon Lorlng. Joseph Mana and Max Feldman. pickets were arrested aftr Emil Wlnne?. n non-union worker and watchman employed by the firm, had been beaU-n severely. An hour later bottles and cobblestones were hurled through the windows on the street level, and much damage was caused In the interior of the place. The joliee assert the bottles contained adds intended to destroy clothing material. Several shots were fired at the fleeing vandals by private watehmen, but the men escaped. |