CHOCOLATE WORKS STRIKE
NEW YORK, April 9.
The plant of the Hershey Chocolate Corporation, the scene of, the attack by farmers :on sit-down strikers yesterday, operated for,two. hours, but the workers, menaced by .groups of strikers outside, left when the, company warned them that it was impossible^ to guarantee,, their protection. ~■■-.. ~
Angry farmers entered the plant of the Hershey. Chocolate Corporation; and expelled the strikers. ',' The farmers, whose market for '800,0001b;of milk1 per day. had been destroyed as a result .of the. strike, armed, with - sticks and clubs, beat the strikers, . many ■ of whom were taken to. hospital. ;, ; .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue CXXIII, 10 April 1937, Page 9
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98CHOCOLATE WORKS STRIKE Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue CXXIII, 10 April 1937, Page 9
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