New Britain herald., 1917-06-16
RIOTlNG FOLLOWS STACKER ROUNDUP
Crowd fingered When Mihtiamen
 Display Bayonets

Now York. June 16.-Rioting of thousands of persons. at anti-con- scription meetings last night marked the efforts of the police and soldiers to round up conscription slackers, giving to the draft situation the most sinister tnge it has taken in New York city. Nearly 200 men were de- tained at two meetings last night because they couldn't show registra- tion cards. While the largest num- ber-about 160-were detained at meeting of the socialists of the Twen- ty-sixth assembly district at the New York Star Casino, TOT street and. Park avenue, 1t was within and with out Arlington Place that the greatest trouble occurred.
 The meeting was rather tame, when 1t was noticed that soldiers, mem- bers of the Eighth Coast Artillery, were demanding cards of the mon who were going out one by ono or in pairs from the hall. which was crowded almost to suffocation. This attracted the comment of the speak CTS and more persons started to leava. About thirty men who couldn't show cards had been pushed into . side room. when as If by one impulse the audience started to leave. The fifty or more soldiers tried in vain to stem the tide. But they couldn't stop the 1000 persons inside who hit the sol- diers at the door in flying wedges and threw themselves outside. where 10,- 900 persons were gathered. hisstng and cursing the soldiers.
 A hundred patrolmen, under In- spector O'Brien, allowed the audience to go as the best solution of prob- lem growing momentarily more dan- gerous. The persons in the hall rushed to fire escapes and windows, but they were guarded, and all went through the front doors, tumbling down the flight of stairs to the street defense guards was formed to 8 side entrance, and twenty of the detained men were taken to the East Fifth street police station.
 In the meantime the situation about the hall grew worse. Seeming ly without the proper leadership. the soldiers, most of whom were young, undertook to disperse a number of street meetings in progress. They broke up ono gathering only to have another form nearby. For self-pro- lection they formed into squad and marched up and down Second avenue while the crowed booed them.
 A hundred men would crowd in up- on the squad when the soldiers would turn about and drawing their bay onets disperse the pursuers. The po-l lice appeared to regard the soldiers as somewhat overzealous and devoted themselves to trying to persuade the people to go home and let the matter rest. But the crowds would not go home. They were thoroughly reused to a feeling of resentment against the soldiers and the screams of infuriated women did much to fan the ugly spirit of the gatherings.
 The meeting was held under the au- spices of the peoples council for de- mocracy and peace. The police had taken especial pains to avoid dis order and there were a large number of detectives and police within the hall. A. R. Gold called the meeting to order and presented the Rev. Lindly Gordon of Sydney. Australia. who told how the conscription law was beaten in his country and how pained he was to find conscription in effect in free America'' Miss Rebecca Shelley, pacifist, declared that "our congress does not represent the will of the people,"
 Anna Levine spoke in Yiddish and lamented the arrest of Emma Gold man. She said the news would reach the pacifists of Russia and encourage them to greater efforts. There were yet other speakers when the rush for the doors started. Gordon tried to speak again and said that the volun- teers raised in Australia had, in large part, entered the army because they were persecuted by ''crazy crack brained girls who sent them white feathers Gold offered a resolution condemning conscriptton. which the crowd roared it's approval of. Then the rush for the doors became so great that the official meeting was abandoned.
 Outside the police had two auto mobiles with searchlights that played upon the crowd and seemed to help to awe the disorderly-inclined for a while, until the soldiers showed their bayonets. Then there was an angry rush which brough police sticks into play and resulted in many bruised heads and bloody noses.
 WILL SEND AMBULANCE UNTT..
 New York, June 16.-The College of the City of New York it was an- nounced today will send an ambu- lance unit to France within two weeks. It has been agreed to pay half the expenses by the alumni as- sociation.