ANOTHER RIOT.
Strikers Unmercifully Beat Special Police.
BUSINESSMAN KILLED. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received Mav 24, noon.) MINNEAPOLIS, May 23. A temporary truce was declared in the bitter lorry operators’ strike after another riot to-day. There was one fatality, namelv a special policeman, who was one of the numerous businessmen nressed into service. Strikers cornered a group of these specials and beat them unmercifully before the regular police came to their rescue. Thirty-five thousand men are involved in a strike of lorry drivers in Minneapolis.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20313, 24 May 1934, Page 1
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86ANOTHER RIOT. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20313, 24 May 1934, Page 1
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