NEW YORK STRIKE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3562, 23 September 1916, Page 3

NEW YORK STRIKE.

SERIOUS STREET FIGHTHNG.

(Per Press Association —Copyright). and N.Z. Cable Service.)

NEW YORK September 21. There has'been serious noting by the strikers, who are forming flying bands and stoning tram-cars for the purpose of frightening the passengers. They ure also attacking motbrmep. Gangs of strikers axe using Central Park as a rendezvous for ambushing cars, a-s it is contiguous to the Eighth Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street lines. • There are 6700 police now on strikeduty. A hundred motor-cars and 100 motor-cycles, carrying detectives, are constantly patrolling the disturbed districts

A number of collisions have occurred between tbe police and tho strikers. Captain Dcmpsey, commanding tho Eighth Avenue Police, had his skull cracked by a. brick. The Public Prosecutor threatens to prosecute, strikers for- throwing missiles. Under the law, this offence carries a penalty of from five to 20 years' imprisonment. Both side 3 now believe th^tr the strike is approaching its climax, and serious outrages are .fenred. It is not believod that a general sympathetic strike will be called;