TEXTILE STRIKE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 155, 21 September 1934, Page 5

TEXTILE STRIKE

Another Fatality Occurs STRiKER~DIES FROM BAYONET WOUNDS Press Association—Copyright. { Washington, Sept. 18. The thirteenth fatality in the textile strike resulted to-day when a North Carolina striker died front bayonet wounds received in a scuffle with Na-

I tional Guard troops. ] An tht l days #o by without the Presi- I ] dent's IfiboUr boafti making any pro- i I gress towards settling the controversy, | j tension is grOWirig In all sections. There j ; vv'ere dozens of. clashes at mills from i ! Alabarria to Maine to-day . between j pickets and militiamen or police. The ■ : most serious trouble occurred at Water- j [ ville, Maine, when 208 strikeris stormed i i a plant, only to be dispersed with the op- ! J pearance of two companies of militia, j i Wild Used tear gas freely. The factory : j windows Were smashed and other pro- i j perty damaged, , t I Although the picket line* are holding ! j fast in North and South Carolina the i ! effectiveness of the strike in Georgia is I i beginning (d deteriorate under stern j j military rule. With martial law in full j | effect hundreds of strikers have been j | herded into barbed-wire enclosed con- i | centration camp and held incommuni- j i cado "for the duration of the strike." Offteers sa,V that fill open-air gather- ! : ings are banned, and there is military ! censorship of the Press. As corttmufliea- ! tlons are threatened it is necessary to ' break the strike under such protection. ' Several Wilis have t'eopeftedL i