SERIOUS RIOTING
TROUBLE IN NEW ENGLAND VIOLENCE IN TEXTILE STRIKE BATTLE RAGES FOR HOURS SCORES SHOT OR GASSED MOBILISATION OF MILITIA By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 8.10 p.m. Eoston, Sept. 11. Textile strike violence centred in New England to-night, with several thousand militiamen mobilised in the States of Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island and Connecticut to suppress raids by pickets on the mills. Most serious riots occurred at Saylesville, Rhode Island, where between 3000 and 4000 strikers battled with the militia and the police for hours. Eight men were injured when the troops fired point blank into the mob, and scores more suffered baton injuries or were gassed. The strikers, however, continued, to charge. They ripped the gates from the factories, destroyed much property and attempted to set fire to the buildings before they were repulsed. They also stoned the troops unmercifully with paving blocks. Early in the morning many strikers concentrated at the cemetery, using the memorial stones as a barricade, and defied the troops to dislodge them.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1934, Page 5
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