Duchesne Record | 1910-08-12 | Page 6 | Start Bloody Riot

START BLOODY RIOT POLICE OPEN FIRE UPON TURBULENT TURBULENT TURBULENT LENT SUGAR STRIKERS AND SYMPATHIZERS Killed Four Two Men Shot and and Badly Wounded In Strife With Wit Officers cers After Attack Had Been Made on Strike Breakers L c New Ne York Two Two men were shot and killed four tour dangerously woun wounded ed one policeman and a score score or more less seriously seriously se hurt during a riot Of f strike sympathizers on Thursday at the plant of the American Sugar Refining company In Williamsburg where astrIke astrike a astrike strike has been in progress for a month Crowds of sympathizers threw bricks at the strikebreakers from house tops and when the union non men started out with their trucks to deliver delver sugar a rush nish was made for forthe forthe forthe the wagons The police on the trucks returned the fire The employees of the plant struck a month ago for an advance of wages The men killed were Lithuanians Several policemen were struck and p painfully hurt b by the bricks thrown The mob was composed for forthe the most part of foreigners chiefly Poles an and Lithuanians