400 ARRESTS MADE
AIRCRAFT PLANT IN U.S.A.
LOS ANGELES, February 25.
A Grand Jury voted 400 indictments charging "sit-down" strikers in the Douglas Aircraft Corporation's' plant with felonious conspiracy and ordered their eviction and arrest.
The authorities intended to use guns and .tear gas. However, covered with machine-guns and surrounded by an otherwise heavily-armed contingent of '350 law enforcement officers, the 400 strikers submitted to arrest without resistance, and were locked up in the county gaol.
Armed with monkey-wrenches and iron pipes, the strikers had threatened to throw a drum of inflammable paint, causing a fire capable of destroying the plant. The Douglas Corporation ■is working on 19,000,000 dollars' worth of Government orders. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1937, Page 9
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113400 ARRESTS MADE Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1937, Page 9
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