LABOUR UNREST

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22776, 9 July 1937, Page 11

LABOUR UNREST

CLASH WITH POLICE TENNESSEE STRIKERS HURT DISPERSAL OF PICKET LINE (Received July 8, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 7 A telegram from Maryville, Tennessee, reports that 19 strikers and four policemen were wounded in a gun battle to-day following the dispersal of a picket line, when the American Aluminium Company's plant was reopened after a seven weeks' strike. The Governor of the State, Mr. G. Browning, ordered out the troops. An electric power tower serving the plant was dynamited and this evening the union electricians were called'out from the powerhouse to support the strikers.

MARITIME WORKERS CAMPAIGN BY MR. LEWIS COMMITTEE APPOINTED (Received July 8, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Jnly 7 The leader of the Committee for Industrial Organisation, Mr. John Lewis, has appointed a committee, including Harry Bridges, leader of the San Francisco Longshoremen's Union, to conduct a. campaign throughout the nation to bring 300,000 maritime wogkers of all categories into the C.1.0. Mr. Lewis evaded the question whether Bridges would be named director of the west coast C.1.0. Mr. Ryan, president of the Longshoremen's Association, expressed defiance and said the American Federation of Labour affiliates were prepared to resist the incursions of the C.1.0. He referred to Bridges as a Communist.