IN AMERICA

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1937, Page 5

IN AMERICA

STRIKE TROUIU.ES CONTINUE i United Press Association—By Eleetri, “ Telegraph—Copyright). WASHINGTON, July 7. Mr Lewis (Leader of the C. 1.0.), has appointed a Committee, including Mr Harry Bridges (San Francisco Longshoreman’s Leader), to conduct a nationwide campaign in order to bring three hundred thousand maritime workers of all categories into the Committee for Industrial Organisation. Mr Lewis evaded the journalists’ question as to whether Mr Bridges would be named Director of the C. 1.0. on the West Coast of the United States. Mr Ryan, the President of the Longshoremen’s Association, has expressed defiance of the. American move. He said that the American Federation of Labour affiliates are prepared to resist the incursions of -the C. 1.0. He referred to Mr Bridges ns being a Communist. TENNESSEE GUN BATTLE. NEW YORK, July 7. A message from Maryville, in Ton nessee, states that nineteen strikers and four policemen were wounded m a gun battle. The battle followed the dispersal of a picket line, when tlie American Aluminium Company’s plant was re-opened, after a- seven weeks' strike. The Governor of Tennessee ordered out the troops. An electric power tower serving tlie plant was dynamited, and to-night- the Union electricians were called out, from the power-house t-o support the strike. , MORE DEATHS NEW YORK, July 8. A message from Maryville j Tennesee, states that two persons died from wounds including a policeman, as the result of an aluminium strike clash. At least eleven of those injured suffered from gun or club wounds. The mill continued to operate shifts changing at night under the protection of troops. \ BOSTON’S PLIGHT. BOSTON, July 8. The strike cabled on the (sth it is feardfl, may cost Boston its supremacy as United States’ largest wool import-, ing centre. With shipping lines declaring an embargo on the port regarding wool, and ninety thousand hales accumulated at the piers and docks, merchants and warehousemen attempted to move some of the supplies with railway goods cars. Employers again appealed, to the workers to return to their jobs, but-they remain irreconcilable oil the closed shop issue.