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Show CRISIS IN R. V. STRIKE i Police and Workmen Have vU Frequent Clashes, and v Trouble Is Brewing. .1 - . yiiVV TDHK, May 19. Clashes) be- iweeo police and striking Italians took .'place at several points along the line of ' the" subway today. The bluecoats on duty along the trench, and the reserves at the station houses were called upon to suppress a dozen lights caused by the attempts of the strikers to Intimidate their countrymen who. tried to return to , work. ' The strikers were out as usual at daybreak day-break in squade of five to. pick up workmen work-men as they left their homes. When the men-got past them they found another an-other set of pickets awaiting them In the side streets Just off the subway. The second line of pickets, when they could not make the men turn back, set upon them, They confined their efforts strictly to workmen of their own nationality. na-tionality. I , At Seventy-second street and Columbus, Colum-bus, avenue a young Italian was set upon by a crofd of strikers. Merchants, Mer-chants, messenger boys and laborers passing went to the lad's assistance and r- general anelee was In progress when the police arrived. Three prisoners wero made. . - 1 About 2000 men or 50 per cent of the required number: are now at work on the Eubway. j |