VIOLENCE GROWS
TEXTILE STRIKE WARFARE NO HOPES FOR ARBITRATION LEADERS’ DETERMINATION PREPARED FOR -LONG SIEGE MARTIAL LAW DECLARED * By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright. Rec. 8.15 p.m. New York, Sept. 12. With the announcement at Washington to-day that President Roosevelt’s board of mediation had abandoned its immediate hopes of arbitrating in the textile strike the union leaders declared they were prepared for a long siege. Meanwhile violence of a serious nature has occurred in many sections. Four were shot and probably fatally injured by troops in a continuation of yesterday’s rioting at Saylesville, Rhode Island.
An aeroplane carrying an emergency supply of tear gas bombs from Pittsburgh to Rhode Island crashed and the pilot was killed. Three men were severely beaten and two automobiles were wrecked when strikers attacked National Guards at Pennsylvania. Disturbances also occurred in the States of Maine, Connecticut, Mississippi and North and South Carolina. , The Governor of Rhode Island read the Riot Act, virtually placing the smallest State in the Union under martial law.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1934, Page 5
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