VIOLENT STRIKERS
AMERICAN MOTOR PLANT | BATTLE WITH POLICE CLEVELAND. July 81 About 42 persons were hurt, several seriously, when a battle between pickets and police resulted from efforts to escort workers through a picket line into the strike-bound Fisher body division of General Motors' works. The pickets, variously estimated at between 3000 and 5000, using stones and clubs, were dispersed with tear gas and streams of water from hoses by a force of 200 police, who restored order with great difficulty. Later, when the Mayor, Mr. Burton, and the Director of Public Safety, Mr. Ness —under whose orders the strikers, who are members of the Committee for Industrial Organisation, were dispersed —arrived on the scene, further violence broko out, and their car windows were broken. The police made several arrests. The plant has been working on a curtailed schedule for three weeks, the tool and die workers having called a strike to dispute the terms of a new contract.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23414, 2 August 1939, Page 13
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