Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1917-02-23 | Page 6 | Women Mob Peddlers

WOMEN MOB PEDDLERS. High Food Prices Lead to Rioting In New York. New York. Following many clashes between the police and women wo-men food rioters at the city hall and in congested tenement districts Tuesday, Tues-day, Joseph Hartigan, commissioner of weights and measures, announced that he was doing everything in his power to stimulate the flow of foodstuffs food-stuffs into this city from all parts of the country. So desperate have the women in some parts of the city become, it is said, that hundreds of food peddlers have locked their push carts in stables sta-bles and suspended business. A number num-ber of these dealers who ventured out on the upper East Side Tuesday were set upon by a mob of housewives house-wives when it was found they were celling onions at 15 cents per pound and potatoes at 9 and 10 cents per pound. The peddlers were driven from the streets into hallways of tenements, tene-ments, where the women tore their clothing and scratched their faces. Meantime the push carts were demolished demol-ished and their contents strewn about the streets.