SCENES OF DISORDER
STRIKERS IN NEW YORK HOSPITAL ENTRY FORCED BY POLICE (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) NEW YORK. 15th March. Policemen with drawn pistols amid scenes of wildest disorder routed 102 strikers barricaded in the rooms of a hospital. The police were forced to break windows and smash doors, using the operating table as a battering ram. Patients in the gravest condition were transferred to other institutions during the melee. Nineteen strikers were arrested. None were seriously injured.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 17 March 1937, Page 5
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80SCENES OF DISORDER Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 17 March 1937, Page 5
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