STRIKE CALLED OFF
Agreement at Terre Haute VIOLENCE EARLIER IN DAY (Received July 24, 7.20 p.m.) New York, July 23. The general strike at Terre Haute .Indiana) hag been called off, according to au announcement by the president of the Central Labour Union after a conference with Federal conciliators. The terms of any agreement reached will not immediately be made public. Apparently the troops will not be removed till to-morrow, at the earliest. An earlier message stated that violence broke out for a second time in the strike, which seemed to have affected almost all the city’s organised labour. Two hundred striking pickets rushed a detachment of the National Guard and were repulsed with tear gas. This occurred twice before the union pickets dispersed. The city was In a turmoil, with guardsmen patrolling everywhere, prohibiting the strikers from holding meetings.
The enamelling plant has suffered damage to the extent of many thousands of dollars from marauders. The Terre Haute Jlerchants’ Association voted to defy union labour and reopen 150 of the city’s stores.
(Note on Page 7.)
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 255, 25 July 1935, Page 9
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