CLASH WITH STRIKERS
MANY MEN SUFFER INJURIES. TROUBLE AT MINNEAPOLIS. By Telegraph—Press Assn .—Copyright. Rec. 8 p.m. New York, May 21. A strike of 5000 lorry operators at Minneapolis, attempting to tie up the city’s food supplies, developed into a pitched battle to-day. Two thousand police special deputies repeatedly charged the strikers with batons. The strikers responded with clubs and brickbats, many being injured. The damage included fractured skulls and stab wounds. A Congressman, Francis Shoemaker, aiding the strikers, was arrested. Thirty-five thousand building workers struck in sympathy with the lorry men and a general city-wide strike is threatened.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 May 1934, Page 7
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