TERRORISTS AT WORK
COASTAL LABOUR DISPUTE
SHOTS FIRED AT MILL WORKERS
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received September 17, 7.30 p.m.) PORTLAND (Oregon), Sept. 17. Terrorist violence flared up in the labour organizations’ dispute on the Pacific Coast. A tug crew reported that a volley of shots was fired at them from a bridge and three Committee for Industrial Organization mill workers allege that a man fired a rifle at them.
Captain Guy Gill, the tug master, said a gang of 20 men boarded his boat and threw him overboard. The incidents are attributed to the American Federation of Labour teamsters and carpenters. An embargo against mills was manned by Committee of Industrial Organization workers, of which several have been forced to close. Meanwhile the teamsters are tightening the embargo at San Francisco and the ports of the entire coast from the north west lumber camps are being transformed into a battleground.
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Southland Times, Issue 23308, 18 September 1937, Page 7
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