UNDER-MANNED?
Liner's Sailing Causes Fray In New York. POLICE AND PICKETS CLASH. NEW YORK, May 17. Sporadic labour trouble along the waterfront in New York reached a climax when 2000 pickets belonging to the maritime unions and sympathisers engaged in a clash with the police, which lasted an hour. Twenty-five pickets were injured, some of them seriously, and two policemen were injured. Several strikers were arrested. For some time the left wing union, said to be affiliated to Harry Bridges' San Francisco organisation, has been striking against steamship lines operating between the east and the west coast. A picket line was formed in anticipation of the sailing of the liner Virginia for San Francisco. According to police the pickets ignored a warning not to cross the police lines and when they did so a fight started.
Mounted policemen repeatedly charged the pickets, swinging their batons freely. At least five women were among the injured. , In spite of the disorder the Virginia sailed according to schedule, although the strikers claimed that she was under-manned.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 116, 18 May 1936, Page 7
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