TAXI DRIVERS' RIOT
stki-ai: has violent i:i> j ON BROADWAY I _ - ' (Received Mareh 23, 8.5 p.m.) i I NEW YORK. March 22. After intermittent rioting last night, when 3000 striking taxidriver. fought the police ;md wrecked the vehicles ot non-strikers, the same group, marching to the City Hall to-dav to protest to the Mayor, stormed through Lower | Broadway, destroyed 30 cabs. as- j saulted 25 cliaufTeurs. stripped oIT their clothing, and dragged out men ir-mil ■vnm.'Mi nasseneers from nassm"
and vomen passenger* iroin passing taxis, beating their drivers i:n- j conscious. The disorder paralysed 1 the traffic arteries. ! The dispute hinges on the un- j willingness o. one of the largest ; transportation companies in the city ] to recognise an outside labr.ir| organisation, while the drivers re- : fuse to join the companv union. |
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21122, 24 March 1934, Page 13
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