POLICE AND STRIKERS CLASH

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 206, 28 May 1938, Page 11

POLICE AND STRIKERS CLASH

Many Injured In Detroit

SEQUEL TO REVIVAL OF C. 1.0. ACTIVITIES By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright (Received May 27, 7.5 p.m.) Detroit, May 26. The most serious clash in the labour dispute since the recent revival of the activities of the Committee for Industrial Organisation* resulted in injury to’at least fifty persons, including several police, when an attempt was made to escort non-strikers through the Automobile Workers’ Union picket line surrounding the American Brass Company’s plant. Many of the injuries are serious. Mounted police using tear gas against 600 picketers, many of whom were women and children, finally succeeded in breaking up the resistance. The strike, which: is five weeks old, was called as a protest against a ten. per cent, wage cut.

LABOUR LEADER SHOT ' DEAD

Union Organiser Arrested Minneapolis, May 26. Mr. William Brown, a Labour leader, who was threatened with assassination last November, was found shot dead in an automobile. Arnold Johnson, union organiser, has been arrested. It is alleged that he confessed to the killing, which coincided. with the abandonment of the investigation into the assassination of Patrick Corcoran, a well-known member of the American Federation of La hotly in the Middle West, who was found shot dead, lying on his face in snow in a street near his home, larsfeNovember.