Bitter Battle At Honolulu Books
HONOLULU, Wed. (1 p.m.)— Striking Hawaiian watersiders armed with clubs, knives and lead pipes, today fought a brief but bloody battle with the police and non-union stevedores.
Three policemen, 20 non-union men and six pickets were hurt in hand-to-hand fighting. One policeman was sent to hospital with broken arm and serious internal injuries. Ti. ciash—the first actual violence in 31-day-old waterfront strike—bre' ut at the wharf gates of the ne\ ormed Stevedoring Company, whu has been hiring non-union lab..
Ti police said over 300 Internatiot longshoremen's Union pickets mil:. und as non-union workers wei oaring to board buses for the whai where a cargo ship, the Steel Flyer, was being unloaded. Suddenly, about 200 pickets burst through the gates, swinging fists and clubs and throwing bricks. They smashed windows in offices and damaged eight; company motor cars before the police could drive them off:. In bitter fighting 28 strikers were arrested and held without boil on rioting charges.
Despite the violence, over 100 nonunion labourers unloaded the Steel Flyer!
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Northern Advocate, 21 July 1949, Page 5
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