NEW YORK NEGROES

Grey River Argus, 22 March 1935, Page 5

NEW YORK NEGROES

STILL RIOTOUS Enormous Sabotage COMMUNIS 1 AGITATION BLj med.

(Aus. and N.Z- Cable Assn.) (Received Man 1 21 at 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 20. Throughout to-d y police detachments maintained in uneasy form of order in Harlem, Ihe Negro quarter of New York, whe e rioting yesterday broke out over 111 case of a Negro boy caught stealin candy at a store in the locality.

To-day the prosp <-ts were for more violence after nigh’ fall. Last night the riming was continued until dawn. The po co, in several instances, were force I to shoot Negro looters, two of whoi died in hospitals to-dav, .

About a hundred. i<»st of them rioters, are nursing won ids, many requiring medical attention The boy whose ti eft started the trouble was found. His photograph was displayed in the newspapers, and show that he was in harmed; but, by this time, the unruly elements were in anv uglv mood. They apparently had forgotten the incident involving the child. It is estimated th:r over six hundred shop windows have been broken in Harlem, and that other property

i.i.s been damaged to the extent of several hundred thousands of dollars. Mnn v people attribute the rioting to then' being serious economic conditions in Harlem. Sometimes Harlem is called tlie “World’s Biggest Negro C’ty. ’’ There are 200.000 persons packed there in a relatively small area About half of these are unemployed. with a corresponding degree of poverfv ami of unhealthy conditions. A Grand Jury, making an investigation, stated with particular emphasis that it is alleged that a Communist agitation is responsible for most of the trouble.