The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-16

ganiZed government" and promlseo that the rights and lives, of cit izens" would be protected.
 There were indications that a. many as 6,O00 soldiers would bt strike became effective the 160tf Los Angeles with orders to move towards San Francisco before noon
 Never before in the city's his tory had there been such scenes save at the time of the great fire and earthquake disaster of 1906.
 Police Fear Food Riots
 Crowds thronged to the 19 res taurants allowed to operate b. the general strike committee. Pc lice feared food riots.
 Long lines of pedestrians trudget their way through a light drizzle determined to reach their places O. employment. Even the city-ownet and operated street railway sys tenn was closed down.
 Over the whole scene there wal @ strange quiet. The noise of tht city had been stilled.
 Mayor Plans for Food
 Almost simultaneously the may. or announced he was forming { committee of 500 citizens to ar range relief of the city from thu threat of food famine, great dis. comfort and disorder. This com. mittee will be completed today. I will advise, if not direct, the work of police and will aid city authori. ties in al, their functions.
 Opposite 1t will stand strike committee of 25 labor leaders. di recting their forces with dictate rial authority. Already they have rationed gasoline to physicians have issued instructions 19 res taurants be kept open to serve thi. city of 100000 persons; that mill and bread deliveries continue; an( that hospitals be supplied witt food.
 Meanwhile conveys of motor trucks, escorted by state highwa, patrolmen, rumbled along high. ways toward the San Francisco bay region, bringing new supple: of food to depleted markets. They moved on orders of Governor Mer. riam who promised nothing should 
 the strike area.
 5000 Soldiers by Night
 By nightfall it was expected would be on duty in a region har. boring a population of million and a quarter people. yet success fully besieged by 50,0O0 striking workers.
 Two riots occurred during the night, one in Oakland and one IT San Francisco.
 In the latter place grocery store was wrecked and $2,00t worth of groceries taken-tirsi food riot of the strike. In Oakland 15O union men and 300 commun- jsts fought with fists and clubs when union men broke up a com munist meeting.
 No Transportation
 The city became completely without transportation at daybreak when day crews refused to take out cars on municipal railway lines saying they feared violence. The Market street railway and the California Gable lines had been tied up since yesterday, Mayor Rossi had promised the municipal line would continue to run but off, cials could not predict when ser vice would resume.
 Automobile traffic and pedes- trians made Market street appear busy.
 By 6:45 a. m. there we're crowds around the 19 restaurants which the strike committee had an nounced it would permit to con- tinue operations.
 Appeal to Citizens
 Theodore Roche. police commits sioner. issued an appeal to citizens He promised that police "at all hazards will. as they must, and to the best oi their abililies, pre- serve the peace of San Francisco and protect the rights and lives of her citizens.
 Neither those who are sworn to uphold the law. nor those who are citizens interested in its general welfare can tolerate for a single instant a city mob-ruled or where unlawful acts overawe peaceful people," he said.
 Tickets did not await the zero hour of a. m. to begin their &C., 
 By 2 o'clock outlying districts were patr1lled by strikers in auto- watching for violations of strike orders.
 Police were directed to arrest as all persons who refused