TEAR GAS BOMBS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 44, 22 February 1937, Page 7

TEAR GAS BOMBS.

STRIKERS DEFIANT.

Police Besiege Motor Works in

Illinois.

COSTLY MISSILES THROWN

United Frees Association. —Copyright. CHICAGO, February 21. A telegram from Waukegan, Illinois, states that 120 policemen and deputy-sheriffs failed to dislodge more than 100 sit-down strikers from two plants of the Fan Steel and Metallurgical Corporation, makers of fine parts for motor cars. Tear gas bombs were exploded inside the buildings, but the strikers mopped their streaming eyes and held off the attackers by hurling at them bottles of tungsten and tantalum valued at 500 dollars each. Fragments of molybdenum and heavy steel weights were also thrown at the police, and fire-extinguishing acid \«as poured upon them through hoses. The commander of the attacking forces later announced that he was obtaining a "knock-out" gas. When this was used, he said, the strikers would "fold up"' and they could be led out "by their ear lobes." The strikers are demanding the recognition of their union, and company officials allege that the strike was called merely to injure the company's business. Six men were injured, three of whom were strikers who refused to have medical aid sent to the plants. Policemen and a deputy-sheriff were burned with acid, and another deputy-sheriff was hurt by an exploding gas bomb. The attackers announce that they will make no further move to storm the plants until the outcome is known of |>eace efforts by jState and Federal conciliators.

UNIONIST SLAIN

Millionaire Employer and Friend

Arrested.

SEQUEL TO STRIKE

NEW YORK, February 21

An Englishman, Norman Redwood, an official of the Tunnel Subway Workers' Union, which is involved in a strike at a •local sewer, was fatally shot from a speeding motor car when he stopped his own car in front of his home. His wife, who was awaiting his arrival for dinner, heard the shots and rail out and found her husband crumpled over the wheel. Samuel RosofT. a millionaire industrialist. and Max Friedman, an associate, were arrested in connection with the case. Rosoff refused to go to New Jersey and was released on his attorney's recognisance. The police explain that Redwood's union had blocked work on a large city sewer which Rosoff's firm was constructing. The motor car in which the murderers drove has been identified by witnesses as one believed to look like Friedman's. The latter said he lent the car to a friend, who returned it before 0 p.m. The shooting occurred at 8 p.m. Rosoff declared that he and Redwood were the best of friends. He has offered 5000 dollars' reward for the apprehension of the murderers.

AGAINST UNIONS.

HENRY FORD'S ADVICE

NEW YORK, February 21

Mr. Henry Ford, in an interview, advised all workers to stay out of labour organisations. He alleged that international linanciers were behind labour unions because they wanted to control industry and kill competition. "They are the cause of all these strikes," said Mr. Ford. "A man loses liis independence when he joins a labour group of any kind, and suffers as a result.

"Competition in industry will guarantee the workers a fair wage, blit unions destroy competition. Organisations of this type lead up to war. 1 am thoroughly convinced that the cure for strikes and other labour difficulties is a high minimum wage.

"It is the less skilled man working on a smaller wage scale who causes trouble."