RIOTS IN NEW YORK. ANARCHISTS LED BY A GIRL

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 46, 24 February 1908, Page 7

RIOTS IN NEW YORK. ANARCHISTS LED BY A GIRL

HEKCE BATTLE. SOME OF THE RIOTERS USE KNIVES. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. NEW YORK, 22nd February. A girl named Voltarine Leleyne, an Anarchist, invited ono thousand unemployed Italians, Russians, and negroes, to carry the red flag to the City Hall and submit their grievances to the Mayor. The procession led to fierce battles with tho police, and a score of shots were exchanged before tho disturbance was quelled. Some of the rioters used knives. The distress in New York is very great. A message on Saturday told us that there were over a million and a quarter persons in the city who needed relief. In St. Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Pittsburg, and other cities there are thousands of unemployed. The Rev. Johntsone Meye'rs, according to a Chicalgo despatch of 9th January, had given breakfasts to more" than 2000 hungry men in four days at the Immanuel Baptist Church, Chicago. Almost all the money came out of his own pocket. The talk of pauperising these men is nonsense, he says. They aro ravenously hungry, and they cannot get work. Tho great majority of them arp Respectable clerks and working men thrown out of employment.