STUDENTS' STRIKE AGAINST WAR

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21449, 15 April 1935, Page 11

STUDENTS' STRIKE AGAINST WAR

AMERICAN DEMONSTRATION 1 RIOTS CAUSED IN SOMB CITIES (CXITE3 I'KSES APSOCIATII>H-"T TELSORIPH COPTRIGHT.) (Received April 14, 7.5 p.m.l NEW YORK, April 11. A one-hour nation-wide scholastic strike against war was called in scores of preparatory schools and colleges at 11 o'clock this morning, sponsored by the National Students League and other youth organisations.

Tiie response varied in tiiflercnt localities, with violence resulting _in some institutions where "patriotic groups staged counter demonstrations and the police intervened.

About 10.000 students demonstrated in New York without incident. At Harvard some students burlesqued the affair, donning imitations of Nazi Storm Troop costumes and goose-stepping around the campus with real machinc-guns. apparently stolen from the Reserve Officer Corps armoury. In Los Angeles the police charged a group of strikers and two girl® were knocked unconscious by baton blows.

At the University of Chicago nationalist and anti-war demonstrators were about evenly divided. The former deluged the anti-war paraders with over-ripe eggs and stink bombs.

At the University of Minnesota the ■ Governor (Professor Olsen) addressed 3000 peace advocates, while the president of Vassar College (Dr. H. N. McCracken) officially closed i the classes and personally conducted the anti-war demonstration. The directors of many institutions banned the strike and declared that it was inspired by communists.