STREET BATTLE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 August 1939, Page 8

STREET BATTLE

STRIKE PICKETS & POLICE IN CLEVELAND lAT GENERAL MOTORS FACTORY. I NUMBER OF PERSONS SERIOUSLY INJURED. • By Telegraph—P—s Association—Copyright. I (Received This Day. 11.50 a.m.) CLEVELAND, July 31. Forty-two persons were hurt, several seriously, when a battle between pickets and police resulted from efforts to escort workers through picket linos into the strike-bound Fisher body division of General. Motors Limited. Pickets variously estimated at between 3000 and 5000 using stones and clubs, were dispersed by tear gas and streams of water from hoses, which were played on them by a force of 200 police, who restored order with great difficulty. Later, when tho Mayor, Mr Burton and the Director of Safety, Mr Ness, under whose orders the strikers, who are members of the Committee of Industrial Organisation, were dispersed, arrived c-n the scone, further violence broke cut and the windows of their automobile were smashed. The police made several arrests. The plant has been working on a curtailed schedule for thaee weeks, tool and die workers having called a strike to dispute the terms of a new contract.