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Show START BLOODY RIOT POLICE OPEN FIRE UPON TURBULENT TURBU-LENT SUGAR STRIKERS AND SYMPATHIZERS. Two Men Shot and Killed and Four Badly Wounded In Strife With Officers Offi-cers After Attack Had Been Made on Strike Breakers. Now York. Two men were shot and killed, four dnngerous'.y woundod, one policeman and n score or more less seriously se-riously hurt during a riot of strike sympathizers on Thursday at the plant of tho American Sugar Refining company In Wllllnmsburg, where a strike has been In progress for a month. Crowds of sympathizers threw bricks at tho strikebreakers from house tops and when the non-union men started out with their trucks to deliver sugar, a rush was made for tho wngons. Tho police on tho trucks returned tho fire. The employees of tho plant struck a month ago for an advance of wages. Tho men killed wcro Lithuanians. Several policemen wore struck and painfully hurt by the bricks thrown. Tho mob was composed for the most part of foreigners, chiefly Poles and Lithuanians. |