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Show POLICE BATTLE WITH RIOTERS Marchers, Carrying "Hunger" Banners, Refuse to Disperse and Fierce Fight Follows. BITE AND SCRATCH Marchers "Want Jobs, Not Charity" Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" Their Slogan. Chicago, Jan. 18. Twenty-one persons, per-sons, six of whom are women, arrested arrest-ed yesterday in the streets at Hull Housr, a social settlement, were to appear in court today to answer to charges of inciting a riot. Mrs. Lucy Parsons, widow of the anarchist, hanged hang-ed for murder after the Haymarket riots several years aro, was among those arrested. Social workers obtained ob-tained her release on bail Seven others also were released on bail Irwin Ir-win Tucker who said he was a preacher preach-er and an editor of a Socialist publication pub-lication was among the thirteen compelled com-pelled to spend the night in a poltce station The riot was the result of an attempt of about 100 unemployed men and women to parade. Some of the marchers carried black ban ners on which, m large, white letters, let-ters, was the word "Hunger." Other banners carried the slogans. "We don't want charity; we want jobs," and "Give us this day our daily bread " Police demnnded that the mart hers halt as no permit had been issued for them to parade. The marchers, ac cording to the police, began to push the banner bearers forward, flighting started instantly Police with revolvers revol-vers and clubs drawn rushed the crowd, felling all within their reach. Women marchers grabbed the iollce-men iollce-men by the legs and threw them to the street, hitipi. and tearing at their faces with finger nails. A number of shots were fired by the police in their attempt to drive back the crov. d With black eyes and torn clothing the police fought their way into the Crowd, arrested t went -one and with difficulty lo ked them up in police station!, after squads of reserves had come to their assistant 6 |