FIERCE CLASHES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 124, 28 May 1938, Page 9

FIERCE CLASHES.

STRIKERS IN U.S.A.

Serious Fighting With Police At Akron and Detroit.

TEAR GAS AND TRUNCHEONS

United Press Association.—Copyright.

(Received 12 noon.) AKROX, May 27. At least 100 were injured and hundreds of other people .were gassed when police and IiOOO pickets battled for three hours in the strike-bound (ioodycar rubber plant.

The police, using tear gas and truncheons, moved on the pickets, who retaliated with stones and fought savagely on the blood-stained streets.

The Adjutant-General of Ohio, fearing further trouble, ordered ;{OOO militia to be held in readiness for a sudden mobilisation.

A message from Detroit states that the most serious clash in connection with a labour dispute since the recent revival of the activities of the Committer of Industrial Organisation, resulted in serious injury to at least ."ill people, including several policemen. It occurred when an attempt was being made to escort non-strikers through the picket line of the Automobile Workers' l"nion surromiding the American Brass Company's plant.

Mounted policemen used tear gas against the 000 pickets, many of whom were women and children, and finally succeeded in breaking up. their resist-

ance. The strike has been in progress five weeks. It was called as a protest against a 10 per cent cut in wages.