POLICE “GAS” PICKETS
STAND AGAINST WAGE CUT.
DETROIT STRIKE-BREAKERS.
[Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Received May 27, 7.10 p.m.) DETROIT, May 26.
The most serious clash in a labour dispute since the recent revival of its activities by the Committee of Industrial Organisation, resulted in. serious injury to at least twenty persons, including several of the police, when an attempt was made to escort nonstrikers through an Automobile Workers’ Union picket line surrounding the American Brass Company’s plant here. Mounted police made use of tear gas against the picketers, who numbered six hundred. The picketers include many women and children. Finally the police succeeded in breaking up the resistance of the pickets. The strike at the plant’is now five weeks’ old. It was . called as a protest against a ten per cent, wage cut. 50 INJURED. DETROIT, May 26. In the picket and police clash, fifty were injured, many of them seriously.
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Grey River Argus, 28 May 1938, Page 7
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