RIOTING AND DEATH

Evening Star, Issue 21819, 7 September 1934, Page 7

RIOTING AND DEATH

AMERICAN TEXTILE STRIKE WALK-OUT SPREADING RAPIDLY Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, September 5. Rioting and death punctuated the textile strike to-day, even as Capital and Labour prepared to lay their grievances before a board of the President’s choosing. Two men were killed in a pitched battle at Trion, Georgia, in which fifteen or more are reported to have been wounded. Three men were shot at Augusta, Georgia, ono critically, and at Greenville five strikers, four of them women, were wounded in a club-swinging melee at mill gates. “ The strike continues to roll on ahead,” said Mr Francis Gorman, chairman of the Textile Strike Committee. “ A fresh 100,000 have been added as mill after mill has been closed. We have fully 450,000 on strike.” Mr Gorman’s figures are at variance with an Associated Press survey, which indicated that 325,000 were on strike, with . the walk-out rapidly spreading. THE CASUALTY LIST TEN DEATHS WASHINGTON, September 6. (Received • September 7, at 9 a.m.) The death roll reached ten to-day, with forty-one injured, as the uniori leaders sought to extend the general textile strike ‘ by picket movements against plants.still open. Six strikers were shot dead at Honeapath (South Carolina) in a battle between the workers and the “ flying squadron,” seeking to prevent the opening of the Chiquola mills.

One striker was shot dead at Greenville (South Carolina) in friction with the police guarding the Duncan mills.