Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1917 — FOOD RIOTS IN CHICAGO [ARTICLE]

FOOD RIOTS IN CHICAGO

Women Attack Butcher Shops and Pour KerocenO on Arrested. Chicago, March 30;—Hundreds of persons, a large number of them women, engaged in food riots in the congested districts of the West side, in which butcher shops' were besieged, many persons were attacked and more than fifty arrests were made. All during the day and up to a late hour last night crowds Stormed the markets and groceries. Windows were broken. Kerosene was poured over meats on display. Stands of fruits and vegetables were overturned. In the Maxwell street district, where the center of trouble lay, a crowd of more than 400 persons, led by a young woman with a child tugging at her dress, ventured before the police station to hold a meeting at which inflammatory speeches denouncing “food grafters” were made. V “Cossacks!” shrieked , the Crowd when the police charged them.