AMERICAN STRIKE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21911, 21 September 1934, Page 11

AMERICAN STRIKE

THIRTEENTH FATALJTY STATE OF TENSION GROWS (Received September 20, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Sept. 19 The 13th fatality in connection with the textile strike happened to-day when a striker in North Carolina died from bayonet wounds received in a scuffle with National Guard troops. As the days go by without President Roosevelt's Labour Board making any progress toward settling the dispute, tension is growing in all sections of the country. There have be§n dozens of clashes at mills, from Alabama to Maine, between pickets and militiamen or police. The most serious situation is at Waterville, Maine, where 200 strikers stormed a plant and were dispersed only on the appearance of two companies of militia, who used tear gas freely. Many factory windows were broken and other property damaged. Although the picket lines are 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 are herded behind barbed wire and enclosed in a concentration camp. They are being held for the duration of the strike.

All open-air gatherings have been banned and a military censorship of the press and communications is threatened if necessary to break the strike. Under such protection several mills have been reopened.