THE STRIKE WAR IN NEW YORK

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2884, 23 September 1916, Page 10

THE STRIKE WAR IN NEW YORK

PASSING CARS STONED

r SERIOUS OUTRAGES FEARED

.:■'■"■;: -ARMI OF POLICE ON PATROL

V - ' -r— 'Australian-New Zealand Oablo Association. .-.•■.■ New York, September 21. There has been serious rioting among the strikers, who are forming flying bands,." stoning the cars for the purpose of frightening passengers, and attacking the motormeu. Tho gangs' ...are using Central Park as a rendez-*\'!-.vous and for ambushing .the contiguous . Eighth Avenue and Fifty-Ninth Street lines. ...:.'.' • Six thousand soven hundred police are now on strike duty. A hundred '--:::; .motor-cars and a hundred motor-cycles, :'>;•' carrying detectives, aro constantly pa'j.'j trolling the disturbed districts. A -.;< number; of. collisions took place be- ; s !■■.; ■ twecn the police and the strikers. Capy ■•.: itain Dempsey, commanding the' Eighth \ -.' 'Avenue police, had his skull cracked by :\\' ■. a brick.' Tho Public Prosecutor threat- -,; ens to_ prosecute the strikers for throw- - •'. ing missiles under a law carrying pen- • altios of .five to tffientyyears' imprison- [*■-'. nient... .. : • Both" sides believe the strike is now '. at its climax, and serious outrages are. 'i;:- feared. It is not believed that a generalsympathetic strike will be called.