STRIKERS ROUTED

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 385, 17 March 1937, Page 6

STRIKERS ROUTED

WILDEST DISORDER. Men Barricaded in Rooms. Press Association —Copyright. New York, March 15. Policemen with drawn pistols, amid scenes of the wildest disorder, routed 132 strikers, w r ho were barricaded in rooms at a hospital to-day. Tne police were forced to break windows and smash doors, using an operating table as a. battering ram. Patients, in the gravest condition, were transferred to other institutions during the melee. Nineteen strikers were arrested. No one was seriously injured. A message from Detroit states the Circuit Judge Campbell to-day granted an injunction ordering 6f)(nF sitdown F.trikers to vacate nine Chry.Cler plants before nine o’clock on Wednesday morning. He ruled that whether the Chrysler Company comes to court with clean hands or not it did not give the strikers the right to seize and appropriate £10,000.000 worth of the property of the company and prevent. its use. Mr Murphy. Governor of Michigan, said he was disturbed by a report that the Chrysler strikers were planning to defy tfhe court order and indicated that he intended to enforce il.

The Remington Rand Corporation, charged with employing rutiTiess methods for suppressing strikes, an nounced to-day that it would not comply with the Labour Board’s order. It intends to start a Federal Court action to set atide the order. Board officials &aid that they would seek a court action to compel compliance.