DEFIANCE OF COURT INJUNCTION

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20680, 19 March 1937, Page 9

DEFIANCE OF COURT INJUNCTION

INDUSTRIAL CRISIS IN UNITED STATES LAWLESSNESS OUTBREAK IN CHICAGO United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 18. 7.55 p.xn.) DETROIT. March 17 Defying the Court injunction, the sit-down strikers remained in the Chryslei’ plants. Twenty thousand union sympathisers massed outside the plants, their demonstration being intended to show their approval of the strikers’ defiance. LAWLESSNESS IN CHICAGO SEQUEL TO TAXI-CAB STRIKE . United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 18, 9.10 p.m.) CHICAGO. March 18 The worst outbreak of lawlessness in the 12-day walk-out of 5500 taxi-cab drivers, occurred when 200 strikers massed at two points in the loop district. They wrecked cabs, slugged strike breakers and battled with squads of police, while thousands watched from office windows. A single shot was fired by a striker, which hit nobody. A mounted policeman who rode into the mob was pulled to the ground and beaten. He was rescued when another levelled a shotgun at the crowd. Several passengers were thrown violently from taxi-cabs and others hit by bricks. The strikers inserted paper in the petrol tank of one cab and ignited it, causing an explosion and a fire. The windows of others were smashed with lead pipes.