THE NEW YORK STRIKE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22824, 7 March 1936, Page 14

THE NEW YORK STRIKE

SERIOUS ACT OF SABOTAGE MANY DWELLINGS FLOODED (United Press Association) (By Electri; Telegraph—Copyright) NEW YORK, March 5. (Received March 6, at 9 p.m.) After a futile conference in which property owners refused to accede to the union's demands for an increase in wages and the closed shop, or to arbitrate the questions, orders to extend the strike of service employees were issued and the inconvenience and suffering arising from the strike, which is now live days old, increased sharply. Over 200 families were without water and heat to-day when the boiler rooms of multiple dwellings were flooded to a depth of six feet in the most serious act of sabotage since the strike began. The district attorney summoned the union leaders to explain the threats to " tear down the entire town" and " fight it out in the streets." In many cases tenants in sympathy with the strikers fed pickets on the streets and declined to be served by substitute employees supplied by the building owners. Six young women whose office building was affected by the walk out while they were having lunch climbed 21 storeys and had to receive medical aid for hysteria and exhaustion. Snow and freezing weather add to the gravity of the situation.