STRIKE RIOTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 47, 22 September 1916, Page 2

STRIKE RIOTS.

SERIOUS COLLISIONS BETWEEN POLICE AND STRIKERS. MATTERS AT A CLIMAX. Press Association — Copyright, Austialian and N.Z.. Cable Association. (Received 1.30 p.m.) ' New York, September 21. Serious rioting has occurred with the strikers, who pro forming bands, stoning the cars with the pu pose of frightening the passengers, and attacking the motormen m o-angs. They are using the Cential Park as a rendezvous as a ° ambush, as it is contiguous to Eighth Avenue and 59th Street lines Sis thousand and seven hnntoed police are now on strike duty, motor cars and 100 motor cycles ca - rving detectives who are constantly patrolling the disturbed district^ A number of collisions between the police and the strikers occurs • Captain Dempsey, commanding Avenue police, had his skull cia by a brick. , ‘ The public prosecutor threatens prosecute the strikers throwing missiles under a law carrying penalties of from five to twenty . vears ; } Both sides now believe that the srike has reached its climax. Senous outrages are feared. It fs not believed that a general sympathetic strike will be callec.