City-wide Strike Threatened
PITCHED BATTLE WITH POLICE United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph —Copyright. Received Tuesday, 8 p.m. NEW YORK, May 21. A message from Minneapolis states that a strike of 5000 lorry operators who were attempting to tie up the. city’s food supplies developed into a pitched battle to-dav, with 2000 police and special deputies repeatedly charging the strikers with batons. The strikers responded with clubs and brickbats, many being injured. Congressman Francis, a shoemaker, who was aiding the strikers, was arrested.
Thirty-five thousand building workers have struck in sympathy with tho lorryman and a general', ‘city-wide strike is threatened.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7471, 23 May 1934, Page 6
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