OILFIELD RIOTS
THREE MORE KILLED.
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PORT OF SPAIN (Trinidad),
■ ■ ' June 21. Two more men and a boy are dead as the result of the riot.
Twenty-six persons w'ere wounded when the police fired on parading strikers.
.. The oilfields authorities sped the largest force of police and volunteers mobilised for the last 30 years in Trinidad, to cope with the situation., The entire petrol .industry, is paralysed’. The strike is now spreading to the sugar estates; to- the docks and to the transport workers. British warshipp have not. yet arrived. ATTACK ON EXCHANGE. (Recd. June 23, 1.45 p.m.) PORT OF SPAIN, June 22. There was another death, and eight more were wounded, when deputised volunteers fired, on a group of strikers, who were attacking the San Fernando telephone exchange. The strikers had previously been driven out from the power plant, after cutting off the electricity. . The hunt is still being conducted for the negro labour organiser, Uria Butler, whom the authorities blame for the oil strike. ■
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 June 1937, Page 7
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