AMERICAN DISPUTES
GAS USED AGAINST STRIKERS
MEN VACATE FACTORY
United Press Association—By Electric Tele-
graph—Copyright.
NEW YORK, February 27.
"Sit-down" strikes continue to occupy the Centre of the stage. These are sponsored by the John Lewis Committee for. Industrial Organisation. Its campaign is aimed at the industrial unions controlling the American Federation of Labour.
At Waukegan 60 sheriffs and deputies, employing a wooden tower mounted on a truck, blasted 75 "sit-downers" from the Fan Steel Company's plant after an hour's barrage with tear gas and knock-out gas.. The tower was backed against the windows, and cartridge after cartridge poured gas into the strikers, who hurled back bolts, pulley wheels and metal fragments.
The "sit-downers" were ultimately compelled to vacate the factory.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 50, 1 March 1937, Page 9
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