MANY INJURED.
CLASH WITH POLICE. Strikers Fought With Tear Gas And Hoses. EFFORTS TO BREAK PICKETS. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 12..'{0 p.m.) CLEVELAND. July 31. Some 42 persons were hurt, several seriously, when a battle between pickets and police resulted from efforts to escort workers through a picket line into the strike bound Fisher Body division of General Motors Works.
Pickets, variously estimated at between :{((()() and r>ooo. using stones and clubs, were dispersed with tear gas and streams of water from hoses by a force of 200 police, who restored order with great difficulty.
Later, when the Mayor. Mr. Burton, and the Director of Public Safety. Mr. Ness, under whose orders the strikers, who are C.T.O. members, were dispersed, arrived on tin- scene, further violence broke out, and their c i( r windows were smashed. The police made several arrests. The plant lias been working on a curtailed schedule for three weeks, tool and die workers having called a strike to dUpute tlie terms of a new contract.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 179, 1 August 1939, Page 7
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168MANY INJURED. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 179, 1 August 1939, Page 7
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