STRIKE VIOLENCE
A LARGE NUMBER INJURED MILITIAMEN MOBILISED (United Press Association.) . (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) - BOSTON, September 12. (Received S>ptl 12, at 9.30 pan,.) , Textile strike violence centred in New England to-night, with several thousand militiamen mobilised in the States of Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, and Connecticut to suppress raids by pickets on mills. The most‘serious riot* occurred at Saylcsville, Rhode Island, where 3000 to 4000 strikers battled with militia and. police, for hours., Eight were injured as the. troops fired points- blank into ti jnob. Scores more (suffered, baton injuries or were gassed. The strikers, however, continued to charge, and-ripped the gates from the plants, destroyed much, property, and attempted to set fire to buildings' before they were rep’Jlsed. They also -stoned the troops unmercifully with ■ paving blocks. Early on Wednesday morning many .strikers concentrated at a cemetery, using memorial Stones as a barricade, and defied the troops to dislodge them.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22366, 13 September 1934, Page 9
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151STRIKE VIOLENCE Otago Daily Times, Issue 22366, 13 September 1934, Page 9
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