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Show FIERCE RIOT 1 1 IN NEW YORK I Women Fight Policemen H With Long Hatpins H and Umbrellas H New York. Jan. 18. The strike of the shirtwaist and dressmakers, a part of the trade of garment workers. !fiH was settled at noon today and most iH oi the :;7,u00 workers will return to sH tho shopg next Ionday. The diffl- Lsa culty had threatened a serious short- sH age m the Bupplj of spring garments, sH The terms of the agreement include LB R general increase in wages, shorter LH ' hours and a permanent system of ar- Hfl bitration. LH Those terms did not satisfy some Lfls! of the workers, however, and a big sH meeting called to ratify the agree- !sH ment, broke up In confusion. When IsH the strikers learned that the advance 'gifli in wages amounted to a maximum of isB H per cent, many declared they LhR would not return to' work and rushed 'from the hall while the leaders plead. tM C'i with them to remain The garment workers' strike prop- LsV :er continues, with about ISOiOOO Lsl 1 workers involved. New York, Ian 18. With hatpins ILS ami umbrellas several hundred worn- sH j en iouglit the police today in one of LH 1 the liercest riots since the beginning LH 1 of the garment workers' strike. A isH policeman, who tried to protect isflP strikebreakers, was badly beaten. The police arrested one woman but bBh had to summon twelve more blue- Hbk coats before they could get the pi is- HRI j oner to the station house. A prisoner was arrested in another sKe j riot which started when the women bVm 1 attacked a truck driver delivering LE& 1 mattresses for the use of the strike- Lv (breakers. OO BH&i |