STRIKERS FIGHT POLICE
LABOUR UNREST IN AMERICA
STERN STRUGGLE IN STREETS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received May 22, 8 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 21. A mesage from Minneapolis states that the strike of 5000 lorry operators, who are attempting to tie up the city’s food supplies, developed into a pitched battle to-day, with 2000 police and special deputies repeatedly charging the strikers with batons. The strikers responded with clubs and brickbats. Many were injured, the injuries including fractured skulls and stab wounds. A Congressman, Mr Francis Shoemaker, for aiding the strikers, was arrested. Thirty-five thousand building workers struck in sympa thy with the lorrymen and a general city-wide strike is threatened.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19806, 23 May 1934, Page 9
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