STRIKE RIOTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17281, 23 September 1916, Page 9

STRIKE RIOTS.

TURMOIL IN NEW YORK. FIGHTS WITH THE POLICE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEJW YORK, September 21. Serious rioting has occurred in ronnection with the tramway strikes. The stackers formed flying bands ma stoned the cars, for the yurposo ol frightening passengers. They also attacked the motormen. Gangs are using Central Park as a rendezvous for ambushing contiguous to Eighth Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street linos. There are 6700 police now on strike duty. A hundred motor-cars arid a hundred motor-cycles carrying detectives are constantly patrolling the disturbed districts. There have been a number of collisions between tne police and the rtrikers. Captain Dempsey, commanding the Eighth Avenue Police, had his skull cracked by a brick. The Public Prosecutor threatens to prosecute strikers throwing missiles, under a law carrying a penalty of trom five to twenty years' imprisonment. Both sides now believe that the strike is at its climax. Serious outrages are feared. It is not believed that a general sympathetic strflce will be called.