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STRIKE RIOTING

AMERICAN TROUBLE POLICE CHARGE THE CROWDS BATONS AGAINST CLUBS SERIOUS CASUALTIES OCCUR By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyricht (Received May 22. 6.55 p.m.) MINNEAPOLIS. May 21 A strike of 5000 lorry drivers, who were attempting to hold up the city's food supplies, developed into a pitched battle to-day. Two thousand police and special deputies repeatedly charged the strikers with batons. The workers responded with clubs and brickbats. Many were injured, some suffering fractures of the skull and wounds caused by stabbing. Mr. I'rancis Shoemaker, a member of the House of Representatives, was arrested on a charge of aiding the strikers. Building workers totalling 35,000 struck in sympathy with the lorrymen and a general city-wide strike is threatened.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21807, 23 May 1934, Page 11

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STRIKE RIOTING New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21807, 23 May 1934, Page 11

STRIKE RIOTING New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21807, 23 May 1934, Page 11

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