KANSAS CITY BATTLE
POLICE BEAT UP STRIKERS MEAT PACKERS’ DISPUTE (11 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 23. Police, with batons, battled with meat packing-house strikers and pickets today at Kansas City and at least half a dozen strikers, including some women, required hospital treatment for head Injuries. The police said the trouble started because the strikers outside one factory disobeyed orders to disperse and, instead, swarmed together and formed a “compact mob.” When the strikers sought to escape blows from the swinging batons inside their union headquarters, the police smashed the door in.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22620, 24 April 1948, Page 5
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