NEW YORK STRIKE
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (eRc. Sept. 22, 1.35 p.m.) NE WYORK, Sept. 21. There is serious rioting of strikers, Avho are forming flying bands and stoning cars for the purpose of frightening passengers and attacking motormen. The gangs are using Central Park as a rendezvous for ambushing. It is contiguous to the Eighth Avenue and Fifty-ninth-street lines. Some 6700 police are now on strike duty. A hundred motor cars and a hundred cycles are carrying them. Detectives are constantly patrolling the disturbed districts. There have been a number of collisions between the police and the strikers. iCapaia Dempsey, commanding the Eiighth Aveniue Police, had his skull cracked) by a brick. The Public Prosecutor threatens to proseoute the strikers for throwing missies under a law carrying from five to 20 years' penalty. Both sides now 'believe that the strike ■has reached l its climax. Serious outrages are feared. It is not believed that a general sympathetic strike will be called-.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 22 September 1916, Page 6
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163NEW YORK STRIKE Nelson Evening Mail, 22 September 1916, Page 6
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