RIOT IN THE GHETTO
PRICE OF FOODSTUFFS IN NEW, YORK. . : ._ :.• ■•
(Received February 21, 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, 20th February. After riotously destroying the pushcart peddlers' stocks of.; vegetables, hundreds of the Ghetto women, with babies, made a. demonstration in. "the CityHaJl Park, demanding the mayor to reduce* the- : prices of foodstuffs. I The police arrested,thetTin^eadlsTj and the women unsuccessfully attempted a rescue. The police scattered tbe -women. after the mayor had projnißedHo'Tecpivg a-depatation to-morrow.j .
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 45, 21 February 1917, Page 7
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