PITCHED BATTLES IN U.S.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 September 1934, Page 5

PITCHED BATTLES IN U.S.

TEXTILE WALK-OUT RAPIDLY SPREADING. (By Telegraph-Press Assn. —Copyright). Received Thursday, 8 p.m. WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. Rioting and death* punctuated the textile strike to-day, even ,as capital and labour prepared to lay their grievances before a board of the Presiderit-’-s choosing. Two men were killed in a pitched battle at Trion (Georgia) in which 15 or more are reported to have been wounded. Three were .shot at Augusta (Georgia), one critically, and at Greenville, five strikers, four or them women, were wounded in a club-swinging melee at the mill gates. “The strike continues to roll on ahead,” said Mr. Francis Gorman, chairman of the textile strike committee. “A fresh 100,000 have been added as mill after mill has been closed. We have fully 540,000 on strike.” Mr. Gorman’s figures are at variance with an Associated Press survey, which indicated 325,000 striking, with the walk-out rapidly spreading. BATTLE BETWEEN LEADERS AND POLICE. (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) WASHINGTON, September 6. The death toll reached ten to-day and forty-one injured as Union loaders sought to extend the general textile strike by picket movements against plants still open. Six strikers were shot dead at Moneapath, South Carolina, in a battle between workers and the “Flying Squadron,” seeking to prevent the opening of the Chiquala mills. One striker was shot dead at Greenville, South Carolina, in a friction with the police guarding the Duncan mills.