U.S.A. LABOUR TROUBLES

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 July 1937, Page 5

U.S.A. LABOUR TROUBLES

TENNESSEE GUN-FIGHT. * [RY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] 1 MARYVILLE (Tennessee). .Inly 7. ( Nineteen strikers and four policemen were wounded in a. gun battle after • the dispersal of a picket line, when t the American Aluminium Company’s 1 plant reopened after a seven weeks’ * strike. The Governor (Mr. Gordon j Browning) ordered out the troops. The electric power tower serving the plant was exploded with dynamite and to-night union electricians were called out from the power-house to ■ support the strike. , DEATHS FROM WOUNDS. (Recd. July 9 IL3O a.m.) 1 NEW YORK. July 8. ' A message front Maryville (Tonnes- ' see) states that two died from wounds, including a policeman, as the result of the aluminium strike clash. At least, eleven of those injured suffered from gun or club wounds. The mill continued to operate, the shifts changing at night under the protection of troops. The supply ol electric current was maintained by a skeleton crew in the power-house. MARITIME WORKERS. WASHINGTON, July 7. Mr. John L. Lewis, leader of the Committee for Industrial Organisation, has appointed a committee, including Mr. Harry Bridges, to conduct a nation-wide campaign to bring 300,000 maritime workers in all categories into the Committee for Industrial Organisation. Mr. Lewis evaded a journalist’s question whether Mr. Bridges would be appointed director of the committee on the west coast. Mr. Ryan, president of the Longshoremen’s Association, expressed defiance. He said that the bodies affiliatted with the American Federation of Labour were prepared to resist the incursions of the Committee for Industrial Organisation. He referred to Mr Bridges as a Communist. BOSTON WOOL DEADLOCK. BOSTON, July S. The strike, it is feared. maj r cost Boston its supremacy as the United States largest wool-importing centre, with the shipping lines declaring an embargo on the port, regarding wool, and 90,000 bales accumulated' on the piers and docks. Merchants and warehousemen attempted to move supplies, with railway goods cars. The employers again appealed to the workers, to return to their jobs, but they remain irreconcilable on the closed-shop issue.