Order was restored here today following yesterday’s clash between police and workers marching in a funeral procession during which, according to an official communique, eight persons were killed and sixty wounded.
Although the disorders had no anti-Jewish character, lawless elements took advantage of them to loot shops, many of them Jewish, which suffered heavy losses. As a result many stores were closed today. Shops in the suburbs were particularly hard hit.
Members of the Bund, Jewish labor organization, participated in the funeral procession and a number of them were reported among the wounded. Whether or not any Jews are among those killed has not yet been ascertained.
The clash resulted when the workers refused to bury one of their comrades, killed in a riot of unemployed, in a remote corner of the municipal cemetery. When the procession, in which 50,000 marched, started toward a cemetery in another section of the city, police opened fire.
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