RIOT ON OILFIELDS
SEQUEL TO STRIKE IN TRINIDAD TWO DEATHS REPORTED (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) PORT OF SPAIN (TRINIDAD), June 21. The British cruiser Kent is steaming towards Port of Spain as the result of a strike riot on the oilfields. A police sub-inspector and a corporal were killed during the fighting, and many police and civilians wounded. The telephone lines were cut.
Additional police have been sent to the scene of the trouble, pending the arrival of naval reinforcements.
POLICE FIRE ON STRIKERS TENSE SITUATION DEVELOPS PORT OF SPAIN, June 22. (Received June 22, at 5.5 p.m.) Two more men and a boy are dead, and 26 persons were wounded when the police fired on parading strikers.
The oilfields authorities sped to the scene the largest mobilisation of police and volunteers in 30 years in order to cope with the situation. The entire petrol industry has been paralysed and the strike is spreading to the sugar estates, the docks, and to transport workers. The warship? have not vet arrived
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23224, 23 June 1937, Page 10
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