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Show STARTS TflOT New York, Oct. 5. Spurred on by tho exhortations of "Mother" Jones, labor agitator, 300 wives and women relatives of striking stroet car men battled with the police lato this afternoon after-noon in tho most serious riot since the walkout on tho traction lines a month ago. Night sticks wero swung right and left by tho police and many of tho women were bruised. Scores of the rioters carried babies In their arms. A crowd of strikers entered the fray on tho side of tho women and was driving back tho few patrolmen on the scene when an automobile load of police reinforcements arrived. The reserves plunged into the midst of the struggling mob and wielded their clubs without mercy. When rioters finally fled they left nine prisoners pris-oners six women and three men in the hands of tho police. The trouble began when the wom en poured out of tho hall whore "Mother" Jones had exhorted them to "get the scabs off the cars." "You are too sentimental," she cried. "Staying at home thinking of dross and trinkets when you ought to be out raising hell." Trooping into the street, the women hooted and jeered at cross-town cars in Eighty-sixth street. Suddenly a chunk of asphalt was hurled through the window of a car halted by a largo automobile truck. This seemed the signal for a gonoral attack on tho car and In less than a minute every win. dow was shattered. A patrolman who was on strike duty on tho car escorted escort-ed the 40 or 50 passengers into tho street and then charged alone into the crowd of jeering women. Ho was helpless, help-less, however, until assistance arrived. Meanwhile the car was being wrecked as piece after piece of broken asphalt from a pile on the sidewalk was hurled at it. The mo-torraan mo-torraan and conductor were lost to sight after several women clambored aboard the car and pulled them into tho street. The men's clothing was torn, their faces scratched and bruised. It was not until tho automobile load of reserves arrived that a semblance of order was restored. One of the women arrested charged tho police with dragging her infant child from her arms. She assorted tho child was left on the sidewalk and two hours after the riot no trace of it could be found. A committee later was appointed to arrange for a woman's parade from "Union Square to tho city hall, where an attempt will be made to see Mayor Mitchell. The parade probably will bo held Monday. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, conferred con-ferred today with William B. Fitzgerald, Fitzger-ald, general organizer of the Amalga. mated Association of Street and Electric Elec-tric Railway Employes, and James H. Vahey, of counsel for the association. It was reported that plans for tho early settlement of the strike wero discussed. |