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Show MEETING RUOKEN UP UY FOOD RIOT Chlcngo Women With Babes In Arras Mnko Riotous Demonstration at Session of Council Committee. Chicago, March 26. More than a hundred women, many of them with children In arms or clinging to their skirts, broke up a meeting of tho city council judiciary committee today to-day by a riotous demonstration in protest of the high cost of living. Tho women mounted radiators, benchos and chairs and shouted to know "what would become of their children." child-ren." Before the demonstration reached Its height the committee recommended recommend-ed for passage by the legislature a bill empowering tho city to go Into th buslnss of retailing foodstuffs and other household necessities at cost. |