GUM BATHE BETWEEN POLICE AND STRIKERS

Northern Advocate, 21 June 1937, Page 5

GUM BATHE BETWEEN POLICE AND STRIKERS

One Picket Killed; Large Number Wounded ■■ : , . ... . • • ..jV ■ . - tVnited Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright! (Received 1 p.m.) NEW XORK, June 20. One picket was killed ar’d 10 persons wounded at the gate of the Republic Steel Corporation’s plant, Youngstown, when part of a crowd of 5000 strike sympathisers fought a three-hour gun battle with a detachment of 360 police. Two women and four sheriffs’ deputies were among the casualties. The massed efforts of all avaiTable city and county police, armed with rifles and shotguns, finally brought the .fighting .under control. Several Pickets Arrested. - ••- f ' The strike leaders afterwards demanded that the Governor, Mr Daven, send the militia to the" scene. A later check-up showed that 28 people were .taken to hospital, ■ while scores of others were treated at private homes and at strike headquarters. , j The police chief, Mr Olson, ordered the arrest of all pickets carrying guns and other weapons and 24 were apprehended. , Planned in Advance? Mr Olson alleges that the riot was planned in advance, and said the pickets, had no provocation for . their attack on the police. After that, the • police used tear gas. ■■ '■ He denied that the police fired guns, but union officials said the riot was precipitated by the sheriffs’ deputies firing from a motor into'a group of pickets. Women said they 1 « were wounded in this way. , '