AMERICAN STRIKE VIOLENCE
MARTIAL LAW AT OMAHA. ONE KILLED; SCORES HURT. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright). OMAHA (Nebraska), June 15. City-wide martial law was declared and 3800 militiamen were mobilised to end the violence in a tramway strike in which one person was killed and scores were injured to-day.
Long drawn out labour trouble reached *a climax when the police admitted that they were unable to keep the street ears moving. Troops were called in throughout last night and to-day. Until the troops arrived gangs of strikers and sympathisers derailed cars and tore up tramway tracks.
The casualties resulted in battles with the police, who used their batons freely.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 17 June 1935, Page 5
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111AMERICAN STRIKE VIOLENCE Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 17 June 1935, Page 5
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