AMERICAN DISTRESS.
RIOTS IN PHILADELPHIA,
GIRL ANARCHIST LEADS VVORKLESS,
SHOTS EXCHANGED. BY TELEGRAPH —MESB ASSO"IATION —COPYRIGHT. (Rec. Feb. 23, 4.10 p.m.) New York, February 22. An Anarchist girl named Voltarino Leloyno invited 1000 unemployed Italians, Russians, and negroes in Philadelphia to carry a red flag to tho City Hall to submit to the Mayor thoir grievances. Tho procession led t-o fierce battles with tho police. A scoro of shots wero exchanged before tho disturbance was quelled. ■ Some of the rioters used knives. ' NEW ■ YORK'S NEEDY. New York, February 21.
It is officially stated that'over a million and a quarter persons in Now York City aro in need of relief. The secretary of the American Federation of Labour/stated on January 31 that there were theu 100,000 more unemployed in the United States, than usual. They were chiefly to_, he found in New York, Chicago, and St. Louis.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 129, 24 February 1908, Page 7
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146AMERICAN DISTRESS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 129, 24 February 1908, Page 7
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