Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1893 — RIOT IN NEW YORK. [ARTICLE]

RIOT IN NEW YORK.

A Mob of Unemployed Men Enter a Hall By Force. A crowd of more than 5,000 men attacked Walhalla hall, on Orchard street. New York, Thursday, because admittance was denied them. They smashed the plate-glass windows to atoms, forced in the doors which had been turned against them and forcibly took possession of the place. Several persons were cut by the flying glass. All sorts of missiles were used and finally the police reserves from the El'dridge-st. station were ordered to the scene. After a fierce struggle the ringleaders were arrested and held for trial. A howling mob followed the officers to the very door of the police station. The proprietor of the hall insisted that the men be allowed to hold their meeting, and this was done. Various speakers said that the object of the meeting was to devise some means to find employment, and that they had intended no harm to the hall in the first place. They said that many of their families were starving. They demanded employment from the Government, that tney might live. Resolutions were passed condemning the police for their conduct, and asserting that they were peaceably disposed; that they want work and must nave it; and warning workingmen to be prepared in the future to resist the police more effectually.