OIL INDUSTRY CRIPPLED
TROUBLE IN TRINIDAD ASSISTANCE FROM WARSHIPS Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright PORT OF SPAIN, June 20. Four men were killed in a clash between the strikers and the police, bringing the list of dead to 14. Four platoons of marines landed from H.M.S. Ajax and established machine guns in strategic positions in order to protect the oilfields. H.M.S. Exeter is expected soon, with reinforcements.
At Rio Clara a mob burned the railway station and tore up the tracks. The mob also cut telephone wires, isolating the region. Harbour -workers at Port of Spain declared a sympathy strike. The island’s entire oil industry is crippled and much other business has been suspended. .
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Evening Star, Issue 22683, 24 June 1937, Page 11
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