STRIKE VIOLENCE
' RIOT ACT READ ARBITRATION EFFORTS FAIL Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, September 12. With the announcement at Washington to-day that the President’s board had abandoned immediate hopes of arbitrating in the textile strike, the union leaders declared that they were prepared for a long siege. Meanwhile violence of a serious nature has occurred in many sections. Four men were shot and probably fatally injured by troops in a continuation of yesterday’s rioting at Saylesville, Rhode Island. An aeroplane carrying an emergency supply of tear gas bombs from Pittsburg to Rhode Island crashed, and the pilot was killed. Three men .were severely beaten and two automobiles wrecked when strikers attacked guards in Pennsylvania. Disturbances also occurred in the States of Maine, Connecticut, Mississippi, and North and South Carolina. .The Governor of Rhode Island read the Riot Act, virtually placing the smallest State under martial law.
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Evening Star, Issue 21825, 14 September 1934, Page 9
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146STRIKE VIOLENCE Evening Star, Issue 21825, 14 September 1934, Page 9
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