The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-05
Anti-Drafters Make a Big Night
of Trouble.
Soldiers and Police Have Hard
Time Keeping Order.
WOMEN CRY FOR PEACE
Men Assert They Do Not Want
To Go to War.
Rerkman and Emma Goldman
Anarchist Leaders.

New York. June 5--Greater New
York broke out Monday night in wild,
riotous demonstrations against the Sc
Iectiye draft act In mass meetings,
on the public streets. anti-conscrip
ton agitators voiced their protest
against the government act COMPEL
ing registration.
The first riot occurred in the
Bronx. Speakers told their hearers
The second took place in New
York's lower east side. the ghetto
eliminating at the very steps OF the
city hall
The third riot occurred in Browns
Vile the Jewish section of Brooklyn
Police and soldiers were called
upon to quelI the rioters. Many per
sons were injured Others were ar
rested. Their friends tried TO rescue
them from the authorities. But in the
end the officials gained the whiphand-
Screaming women and shouting
men. driven from an anti-draft meet
ing in Rutgers square park flocked to
the city hall Squads of police met
the excited mob at the edge of the
park and tried to turn il back Hun
dreds refused to obey the police or
ders. They rushed the lines. Night
sticks were used, but only to thrust
back the struggling throngs-
Women Defy Police.
Women were far more forward in
defying the police Many of them,
struggling and screaming, had to be
almost carried across the street before
they abandoned their purpose of
reaching the city hall. All of them
We're shouting:
[ Don't register tomorrow we
don't want war; Let the people that
want war to go to it," IF they draft
/ our men we will be left to starvei'
We have a right to say we don't
want CONSUMPTION and war;" We
want to see the mayor"
Again and again in the crowd was
started moving in a mass back along
Park Row the way it had come. but
only to break up into groups which
swung around the police lines or
forced their way thru.
Don't register screamed the wo-
We won't register" shouted the
men.
! Scores of children, some under eight
/ years old, followed their mothers into
the crush. Several fell n the scram-
Bile None were seriously hurt
The Mob Doubles.
i The hysteria of the women increas-
ed from moment to moment after the
first clash with the police. The mot
7 started 1000 strong It was double
that number before it reached City
Hall Park Women shook their fists
at the police. It was nearly mIdn' CHI
before the tIue coats restored order.
Jeered and hooted by a mob OF
10000 that had been unable to Jam
their way into Hunts Point Palace
the Bronx, where anarchists. Social
lists and pacffists were agitatins non
CONSUMPTION, a detachment or ma
tional guardsmen and members OF
the Home Defense League charged tbs
crowd with drawn clubs and guns
A few minutes later 4 score of mer
and women had been arrested Flfteer
of them had their heads stitched W
hundred others lfmped away rur'=ins
bruises. Several soldiers received
bites and scratches from the wcmen-
Alexander Berkman, Emma Gold
man and other radicals had aroused
these in the hall to the point Of
frenzy. Mere than 100 boys in knak
were in the gallery. The soldier,
were the especial target of the speak
ers The crowd torrnented the SPEAK
ers Missiles were hurled at them
Bel kuan's tormentors were particular
" bold.
If consumption is the cemetery
then registration is the undertaken.
he shouted
There are thousands who will no
register tcmorrow-black Tuesday
We have a worse enemy here in Free
American than we nave in Germany.
He got no further boots ard cat
calls greeted him. a husky soldie
, screa med
! you're the enemy. Go back t.
; Russia
: Paudemonium broke out 1t wa
: quieted by Emma Goldman
Arrests Infiame Crowd.
The crowd outside then began t
= riot They flung themselves agains
the police lines The police, detec
: ives, federal agents and Home De
tense Ieaguers could not handle them
They formed a barricade. Police au
tonobiIes trained their searchiight
: on the crowd. The arrest of Ernes
Greenbaum. who attempted stree
n speech. infIamed the crowd further.
4 Emma Goldman adjourned tn
\ meeting inside Just white haire
4 woman cIambored upon the platforr
l and began distributing anti conscriI
\ ton circulars. They were headsl
II Don't register. my son, $1,000 re
ward" National guardsmen confis
II Gated most of the circulars The VIC
\ man was arrested. The guardsme
II reinforced the police When one {
/ their comrades was beaten the
charged the mob with guns and club
4 Tt several hours disparSe RI