ANOTHER CIVIL WAR?

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 350, 3 February 1937, Page 5

ANOTHER CIVIL WAR?

MOTOR WORKS STRIKE.

CHEVROLET PLANT.

National Guardsmen Stand In Readiness.

Press Association—Copyright. New York, Feb. 1

More than 1000- national guards-, men at Flint, including machine-gun detachments, were held in readiness after a riot in which union members seized a Chevrolet plat previously unaffected by the motor and strike and engaged in a pitched battle with company police and non-union workers, resulting in 24 persons being injured, four of whom were taken to hospital. The troops are expected to surround the Chevrolet and Fisher body plants and to permit no one to enter or leave, but not to attempt to eject the strikers forcibly. The guardsmen were called ou by the Governor of Michigan,' Mr. Murphy, after the city and county authorities had appealed to him for aid, stating that they were unable to cope with the situation.

Three company policemen were thrown over a high fence during the riot, which lasted an hour and a-half and spread to several other General Motors Corporation plants. The union men were assisted by a group of 20 women wearing red berets and arm bands and carrying clubs. The attack was directed through a loud speaker mounted on a truck.