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STRIKE DISTURBANCES VIOLENCE IN MANY SECTIONS (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, September 12. (Received Sept. 13, at 9 p.m.) With the announcement at Washington to-day that the President’s board had abandoned immediate hopes of arbitrating in the textile strike, the union leaders declared that they were prepared for a long siege. Meanwhile violence of a serious nature has occurred in many sections. Four men were shot and probably fatally injured by troops in a continuation of yesterday’s rioting at Saylesville, Rhode Island.
An aeroplane carrying an emergency supply of tear gas bombs from Pittsburgh to Rhode Island crashed, and the pilot was killed. Three men were severely beaten and two automobiles wrecked when strikers attacked guards in Pennsylvania. Disturbances also occurred in the States and Maine, Connecticut, Mississippi and North and South Carolina. The Governor of Rhode Island read the Riot Act, virtually placing the smallest State under martial law.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22367, 14 September 1934, Page 9
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