TRINIDAD STRIKE

Evening Star, Issue 22682, 23 June 1937, Page 12

TRINIDAD STRIKE

■ » SPREADING TO OTHER INDUSTRIES THREE MORE FATALITIES Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright PORT OF SPAIN, June 22. Two more men and a boy are dead, and 26 persons were wounded when the police fired on parading strikers. The oilfields authorities sped to the scene the largest mobilisation of police and volunteers jn 30 years in order to cope with the situation. The entire petrol industry has been paralysed and the strike is spreading to the sugar estates, the docks, and to transport workers. The warships have not yet arrived. VOI'JMTEERS Fir.: CJI STRIKERS ONE MAN KILLED. PORT OF SPAIN, June 22. (Received Juno 23, at 11 a.m.) There was another death and eight more persons were wounded when the volunteers fired on a group of strikers, who were attacking the San Fernando Telephone Exchange. Striker's

previously had been driven out from the power plant after cutting off the electricity. A hunt is still being conducted for the negro Labour organiser, Uria Butler, whom the authorities blame for the oil strike.