The Washington herald., 1917-02-24
PROTEST PARADE
SET FOR TODAY
New York Rioting Grows.
Two Mass Meetings
for Crowds.

tBy the international News Service
New York, Feb. z.-Looting became
common in today's food riots in New
York City. Again the Metropolitan police
struggled with that most unreasonins
enemy, the angry housewife.
The disorder today produced more
broken windows than broken heads, but
its extent daily is growing. both in terri
tory and in the number of persons in
volved.
Mobs OF foreign women. aproned and
hatless. marched from open air meet
ings on the East Eide, the Bronx,
Brownsville and Williamsburg, to raid
stores, break windows in offending shops,
Steal milk from door steps and in some
cases, attack other women who sought
TO buy.
Sixty arrests were made, according to
the Anti-High Price League. Counsel
was supplied by this organization and
bail provided where possible. PeaceabIe
methods were urged.
Ban on Certain Foods.
The enforced ban on chicken. fish. po-
tatoes, and onions swept markets clear of
these foods. Butchers universally refused
TO kill poultry and hardly a pound of
meat was sold during the day. Fruits and
nuts were the only articles sold on push
carts.
In the Bronx. women in carts decorated
with American flags called upon the
crowds at the markets to maintain the
boycott. Mother Jones'" at a meeting
in Webster Hall, Id the mothers not to
be driven away from their picket lines.
Heavy police patrols guarded every point
The Anti-High Price League. the larg-
est agitating faction, announced that or
ganizations comprising 10000 members
had allied themselves with the move
ment and would meet in conference
within four days. These include the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the
United Hebrew Trades. the international
Ladies' Garment Workers, the Work
mems Circle, the Socialist Consumers
Leagne. thc Brooklyn Housewives
League and two Irish-American organi-
cations.
Abraham Plotkin. on behalf of the
executive committee said:
Plan Great Protest.
Arrangements have been completed
for a demonstration of 500, 900 at Madison
square and Union square tomorrow We
have chosen two places. as neither square
would hold the crowd. Committees will
be sent to Albany and Washington this
week, while a mass meeting will be held
at the Stuyvesant High School on Sunday
evening
Mrs. Ida Harris. president of the Moth
ers' Vigilance League, the second faction,
distributed 2,Oo0 circulars in Italian
quarters, asking for cooperation in her
work. She said that at o'clock tomor-
row morning she would lead the women
to Washington market. headed with a
starvation banner, to appeal to farm
ers and wholesalers.
The radical party. headed by Marie
CAM. waited in ominous silence for new
developments. Miss CAM predicted
something like the French Revolution"
should the board OF estimates delay re-
lief measures. She expressed the inten-
ton OF ACCOMPANYING Mayor Mitchell to
Albany Reserves from the Fifth street
station were at hand when she addressed
600 women in Rutgers square.
Julius II. Mohy, president of the Mer-
camille Exchange. was subpoenaed when
the district attorney began an investiga-
ton of alleged price fixing today. Data
has been secured to show that great
quantities of food are being held to Gre
ate an artificial shortage. Freight agents
of every railroad will be called to testify
on the number of food cars being held.