GENERAL STRIKE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 239, 23 July 1935, Page 5

GENERAL STRIKE

AMERICAN CITY PARALYSED. THREAT OF SHORTAGE OF FOOD. SIXTY THOUSAND WORKERS OUT United tress Association—Copyright) (Received 1 This Day, 10.10 a.m.) NE WYORK, July 22. A message from Terre Houte (Indiana) states that a general strike, called in sympathy with a strike of 600 employees of a enamel plant, paralysed the oity to-day and threatened to precipitate; a critical shortage of food. Within 24 hours all deliveries of supplies of food] were stopped and the stores closed rapidly. As the strike leaders went through the city urging all workers to join the “walkout” they met with almost instant success, as virtually every industry in the city is unionised. There was no immediate violence, but the city officials requested men of the National Guard to help to preserve peace. It is estimated by the union leaders that even the coal-miners employed throughout the country joined the strike, thus bringing the total to 60,000 on strike.

Among those affected are crafts and tirades, food stores of all kinds, teamsters, hucksters, restaurants, barbers, oil refineries, building trades, hotel workers, trams-electric plants. The strike at the enamel plant has been of four months’ duration.