ANTI-WAR STRIKE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 88, 15 April 1935, Page 7

ANTI-WAR STRIKE

V I’OLEN CE AND BURLEHQU E. UNITED STATES SOLLEGES. Received April 14, 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 a eleven o’clock this morning, sponsored by the National Student’ League an J other youth organisations. The responsible response varied in the different localities with violence resulting in some institutions where “patriotic” groups staged counter-de-monstrations and the police intervened. About 10,000 students demonstrated in New York without incident. At Harvard, some students burlesqued the affair, donning imitations t»f Nazi 'Storm Troop costumes and goose-step-ping around the campus wii.h real machine-guns, apparently .stolen from the Reserve Officer Corps armory. In Los Angeles the police charged a group of strikers, and two girls were knocked unconscious by baton blows. At the University of Chicago the Nationalist and anti-war dem mstrators were abount evenly divided. The latter deluged the paraders with overripe 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 ins' : tuticns banned the strike and ’ declared Communist inspired, and it appeared that, the Communist youth organisations wore active in many.