Martial Law in Georgia

Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 221, 21 September 1934, Page 7

Martial Law in Georgia

Tension Grows in Textile Strike

DEATHS NOW NUMBER THIRTEEN

United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph— I Copyright. Received Thursday, 7 p.m. WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.

The 13th fatality iu the textile strike resulted to-day, when a North Carolina striker died from bayonet wounds received in a scuffle with National Guard troops.

As the days go by, without tho President’s Labour Board making any progress towards settling the controversy, tension is growing in all sections. There were dozens of clashes at mills fromAlabama to Maine to-day between pickets and militiamen or police. The most serious occurred at Watervillc (Maine) when 200 strikers stormed the plant, only to be dispersed with tho appearance of two companies of militia, who used tear gas freely. Factory windows were smashed and other property damaged. Although the picket lines arc holding fast in North and South Carolina, the effectiveness of the strike in Georgia is beginning to deteriorate under stern military rule. With martial law in full effect, hundreds of strikers have been herded into a barbed-wire enclosed concentration camp and held incomunicado “for the duration of the strike.” Officers say that all open-air gatherings are banned and there is a military censorship of the Press. As communications are threatened, it is necessary to break the strike under such protection. Several mills have re-opened.