STRIKES IN AMERICA.
RELIEF ’PLANE FIRED AT. INJURIES IN RIOT. YOUNGSTON (Ohio), June 3. After two Republic Steel Corporation aeroplanes had crashed without the occupants being injured the corporation announced that it would discontinue the use of ’planes to drop food to the strike besieged plant. It alleged that a sniper’s bullet severed a strut over the head of one pilot. The sheriff and his deputies are hunting for the snipers in the underbrush. The strikers surrounding the plant refused to permit food to be sent to those working, therefore the corporation U6ed ’planes. At Little Falls, New Jersey, State troops were summoned as the result of a riot in which the police were forced to use batons and tear gas to rout a thousand strikers attempting to close a laundry plant. More than a score were hurt ,including several women, but none critically. A dozen-motor-cars were damaged and the plant windows were smashed. The strike was iostered by the Committee for Industrial Organisation.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 157, 4 June 1937, Page 7
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