IN AMERICA

Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1937, Page 5

IN AMERICA

STRIKE AFFAIRS SPECIAL POLICE CALLED OUT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). MONROE (Alichigan), June 8. Fearing open hostilities between the Republic Steel Corporation and the Committee for Industrial Organisation, the Alayor, Air Knaggs, called on those citizens with military, experience to enlist as special policemen,, and so permit the Republic Corporations’ subsidiary company here to re-open their plant, which has been closed as the result of the strike. Alayor Knaggs alleged that ten thousand C. 1.0. workers were planning Xj flock Alunroe from Detroit and Toledo. He hinted that the special policom nowill carry rifles. Meanwhile, minor outbreaks have oc- , curred at Youngstown, in Massillon, Ohio, when the Sheriffs ordered strike pickets to disarm. A crowd threatened to march upon Youngstown gaol and to deliver three rioters, who had been arrested. The crowd desisted in the face of a cordon of guards, armed with rifles, and tear gas. At Chicago, thirty-nine C.T.O. men, who held a sit-down strike at the Fansteel Corporation plant in last February, in defiance of a Court order, were fined up to one thousand dollars, and received terms .of imprisonment up to eight months each. PICKETS ARRESTED NEW YORK, June 8. Tn Lansing City, in Alichigan, the hokl-np. which was cabled last night, was paralysed again for a second day. when five pickets, who were arrested faced misdemeanour charge*. STRIKE RIOT YTCTIAI CHICAGO. June 8. The victim of the steel riot (rallied on May 31) .died. There has been .a mass meeting . of the Citizens’ Rights Committee. and also of the Chicago Church Federation They adopted a resolution demanding an official investigation into the clash.