TRAMWAY STRIKE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 209, 17 June 1935, Page 5

TRAMWAY STRIKE

VIOLENCE IN NEBRASKA. POLICE AND MOB CLASH. ONE MAN FATALLY INJURED. ..United Press Associations-Copyright; NEW YORK, J<tn« 15. A telegram from Omaha (Nebraska), states that city-wide martial law has been declared, and 1800 militiamen mobilised to end violence in a tramway strike in which one man has been killed and scores injured. To-day the long-drawn-out labour trouble reached its climax when the police admitted that they were unable to keep the cars moving, and the troops were called in. Throughout last night and to-day until troops arrived, gangs of strikers and sympathisers derailed cars and tore up tracks. The casualties were caused in battles with the police, who used their batons freely. TWO OTHER OUTBREAKS. COAL MINERS AND ELECTRICAL WORKERS. WASHINGTON, June 15. A coal strike which threatened to start yesterday was averted at the last minute by the personal intervention of President Roosevelt, who negotiated an agreement affecting 450.000 miners for 30 days, in which tine the Administration hopes .to pass legislation to meet the complaints or the workers. The strike of electricians and bfnce workers in five plants of the Toledo Edison Company, which broke out an May 6, and compelled some oi the largest industries in Ohio to shiit down, as well as threatening to paralyse industries in 20 other cities and which was called off on the atnployers promising increased wages, has again been called, with serious danger of a power stoppage in an area containing a population of 500,000. ABOLITION OF CODES. NATIONAL RECOVERY ACT. WASHINGTON, June 15. President Roosevelt signed a joint resolution of both Houses of Congress extending the modified National Recovery Acts to April, 1936. Congress completed action on the skeleton N-R-A- when the House of Representatives passed the resolution by 336 votes to 31. The new N.R.A- will have no legal power. All the previous codes are, in effect, abolished, but the organisation will continue to function as a research bureau, in the hope that some permanent legislation can be evolved before it expires on April 1, 1936.