ANTI-WAR STRIKE

Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1935, Page 5

ANTI-WAR STRIKE

STUDENTS DEMONSTRATE

CLASHES IN THE STREETS

YOUNG AMERICA PROTEST

NATION-WIDE MOVEMENT

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Rec. 5.5 p.m. New York, April 12.

A one-hour nation-wide scholastic strike against war was called in scores of preparatory schools and colleges at 11 o’clock this morning sponsored l by the National Students’ League and other youth organisations. The response varied in different localities, with violence resulting in some institutions where “patriotic” groups staged counter-demon-strations and the police intervened. About 10,000 students demonstrated at New York without incident. At Harvard some students burlesqued the affair, donning imitations of Nazi storm troop costumes, goose-stepping around the campus with real machine-guns, apparently stolen from the reserve officer corps armoury.

At Los Angeles the police charged a group of strikers and two girls were knocked unconscious by baton blows. At the University of Chicago nationalist and anti-war demonstrators were about evenly divided. The latter deluged paraders with over-ripe eggs and stench bombs. At the University of Minnesota Governor Olsen addressed 3000 peace advocates while President McCracken, of Vassar College, officially closed the classes and personally conducted the anti-war demonstration. The directors of many institutions banned the strike and declared it Com-munist-inspired, and it appeared that Communist youth organisations were active in many sections.