Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-02
POLICE FIGHT MOB
ATTEMPTING RAID
AGAINST RADICALS
New York PatrOImen Beat
Soldiers and Sailors
With Clubs.
MEN TRY TO HALT MADISON y
SQUARE GARDEN MEETING.
Socialists Vote on Strike H.
Mooney and Others Are
Not Retired. ~
ONE Man KILLED IN CLEVELAND
Four Others Hurt in Boston, and
Many Wounded i'm Battles
i'm Paris.
ONE Man KILLED IN CLEvELASD
Four Others Hurt in Boston, and
Many Wounded i'm Battles
i'm Paris.

the May Day celebration OF New York
came tonight with a ma ss- NEE ting al
Madison Square Garden, which adopted
strikes. three Of i've days duration,
lnd js., fourth Of Indefinite length, un
Billings are released from prison or
granted new trials before July {. !
The meeting tonight was the only
one of IA dozen planned for today which
was not broken up by soldiers and
sailors who demanded that the Amer.
lean a.n nag he displayed and The star
the fault of the service men that they
did not clean up" the garden TO-
night They tried hard enough, but
An army Of l.3lS police. under coni-
mand of Chief Inspector DAILY. guarded
Az approaehes to the garden. ana y
uniform. recently returned from 81
Police Bcat Soldiers.
Led by a Scotch Canadian soldier and
assembly the soldiers aud snlors
snarged the police lines again ana
Back .f the officers on foot with night {,
sticks held ready, were outposts OF
mounted men. They were re-enforced =
Not only did the police repel frontal d
sncsss sntagks' put they hy tried strategy with
oieers sevea e1 gH bdpeG p,ntp9G OF mounted
-
on foot caught u large number of sol-s!
oier,,,, aiers' s!.iors a. and marines in Twenty
eignth street. between Fifth and Mad
@ .san VENUES cutting of every avenue
of escape. The patrolmen charged the
crowd. using their night sticks freely
ana dispersed il. sii g1
Wounded Soldier TrampIcd.
One mounted officer chasing the CA
madam iead-r Of the crowd and an
American soldier. pursued them Oh
h1rsehaek nin,n, into into the main, entrance of
~ ~ ti,A 4 49,
WAS relied b2L blow from 4 night stick
me Canadian escaped through tho
In, narroom The police became more en-
,hushstic IN their work after they had
been pelted with shower Of bricks
An American soldier, wounded in
pital in this city. was knocked down s.
and trampled on by a contingent c.s
mounted police, who charged the crowd
as nc was walking or. He was un-
bulancc. 10 Nv
worn while lie the the police and service men
Mooney meeting was proceeding with
great enthusiasm. but little disorder.
nSrn nsrnts SO, OF the DEPARTMENT of Justice
were scattered through the huge halE
watching tho proceedings and now and
then taking notes l5s
adopt Strike Resolution.
rhe strike resolutions which worc
anontcd, after recitinE that every legal y
rGsoursS h,t has been exhausted without
Mooney or Billings called on organiged
WORKERS TO act as follows:
sranted adSs Mooney @em trias a1d Or freedom
strike TO take enect for for II fve sfness.l dassG
Further If justice is SIN denied. IN,
spite OF the first protest. we Will iaE,
sor senSrai fSr astr strike TO take effect again
an5 AND ;. DC !" effect September /, =,
Again. if no roliec is forthcominS
irE
general strike for five days. To- oi taSa
Sntsarv Saeet beginning e.; November 10. ami.
oc In effect November 10, 20. 81 %
and Billings are still in iaii i Wo MooneX la,ii,
Join general strike for an indefiIitfs
per'oo AT j given date" W.
m One Killed in Cleveland
rhc most serious rioting occurred :,
Cleveland, where one man wa.'tn,i1 en n
ana ana. more than 100 persons inclndinE
IN importance was "a battle bet twes,
duri,n dur ro'usS nSioh ana naraders in Boston,
y riot call was sounded in Chico 90
rade which had been ,forbidden. ssS
erai persons were arrested but there
were no casualties '"eto
ONE MAN is kII.I.ED
,v,,, 80. CLEVELAND RIOT
ned ddhEan;LAND' man Va My Nay I'm unidenss-
i,-fs'u
nnilet, eleven policemen were shot ~.
badly beaten, and about 100 nerson.
wounded, many seriously in Eeneraj
riot,nE which brought "a dramut,,,
hnalc this afternoon TO a Socialist Mag
'"S demonstration here.
ABOUT thirty persons seriously ip
lnrcd' arc In hospitals tonight whiio
scores OF others. including women
were tramplcd by rioters and clubbai
Socialist headquarters was totaIlv 4
wrecked by angry civilians bent On q
putting an end to the demonstration. -
Ihc rioting was general in public,
Prospect Avenue. Superior Avenue,
fares. 80
Socialists and sympathizcrs in East s.
Ninth street and AT public square waFa
RIDDEN down by mounted policemen
and by soldiers In army tanks and y
Tho one fatality occurred at Centrat
and Woodland Avenues, WHOM a mob IS
said TO have been composed of Sociai.sS
lists or sympathizers. rushed 5netectiy,,.
Woodring and other officers. Woodrinx, S:
aec'a rms he drew his revolver TO saSo =
his own life, nred into the alle rSfi Is.
leader OF the mob, the bullet 81 assl 8 "
through the mans neck. kt3Itn Eis33s%
man was an ., issi d e
s. sixty OF ~ 81 sS n 9i,SS