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Show Many Textile .Workers Clash With Police at. 1 Little Falls. Little Falls N V . Dec 2S. With the state board of arbitration sitting as mediators in tho strike of textile workers, hundreds of btnkers in the streets lodaj clashed with the police The first disorder occurred at the Phoenix mill, where police cleared the sidewalk of massed pickets. The second on Main street where thoy dispersed dis-persed the strikers' parade. During the second demonstration one of the strikers lying prone on the sidewalk refused to move Women in the crowd began to scream thnt he had been killed This was denied by the police Mrs Annie Malarik. who said she was 24 vears old and earned 34 a week, testified at the hearing that she and her husband lived in an eight-room eight-room house with 23 other persons They slept three or four in a bed, she said Hlggolytain Kotarse, who said he made $S 95 a week by working five nights compared the police of Little Falls with tho Russian Cossacks. "In Russia," he declared, "the Cossacks Cos-sacks use their fists, but here tho police po-lice use their clubs " The hearing was adjourned until Monday. |