MARTIAL LAW DECLARED
: OMAHA TRAMWAY STRIKE—ONE PERSON KILLED : Press Association —Copyright i Omaha (Nebraska), June 15. I City-wide martial law was declared
! and 1800 militiamen were mobilised to i end the violence in a tramway strike l in v/hich one person was killed and j scores were injured to-day. | Long drawn out labour trouble reached a climax when the police admitted that : they were unable to keep the street cars I moving. Troops were called in through- ! out last night and to-day. ; Until the troops arrived gangs of strik--1 ers and sympathisers derailed cars and ; tore up tramway tracks, j The casualties resulted in battles with I the police, who used their batons freely.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 360, 17 June 1935, Page 5
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