HALF-HOUR BATTLE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 76, 16 April 1937, Page 6

HALF-HOUR BATTLE

-Presi Aain.

{fear-Gas and Lead Weights Used at Detroit STRIKERS v. POLICE

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(Received 16, 8.45 a.m.) DETROIT, April 15. 'After a half-hour battle in Which; jfcear gas aua lead weights were useai icore than 300 policemen, sheriffa andj leputies axrestea 150 sit-down strikers, fcostly women, at the Yale and Towne, p£annfacturing Company. Three men! torere tent to hoapitaL Ti.# entire neighbourhood was hazy, llrith. amoka and gas fumes. The sheriff mad a Court order for the evacuation |ef the etrikers who refused to comply. She. poliee then smaehed the doora and; windows and hnrled bomhs while the (strikers on. the zoof dropped lead jereighta. The plant waa aoon filled with jgu, forcing the strikers to surrender. tf he plant makea loekn. j The Chryaler motor atrikera havej pffiliated with the CXO. Fired the Boee! •f'JL meeeage from Milwaukee etatesj [iSaat a sit-down strike of 115 employees Ut the Yahr Lange Dmg Company was jeettled with a single demand by the jatrikera being met with the reaignation wf the general manager, Fred Yahr, ttged 65, who had headed .the company. jfor 37. years, He agreed to relinquiahj [the nctive management and sail forj pSnrope on a holiday, retaining thei ^tresideney. It is the first timo that' tonrrent labour strike workers have fired fthe boee. ,They accused him of disjeharging employees ea soon as theizj flength of eerriee justified a' wage increase. Granting a 10 per eent. pay increase. Jto 20,000 employees the British-owned; fyiscose Corporation, the largest manujfactnrer of rayon yarn in the United Btates, aigned a contract with the C.I.O, (affiliate. The increase will amonnfto J3, 000, 000 dollars a year. The liner President Eoosevelt with £17 passengere was nnable to sail for Europe .due to a sit-down strike of 65 members of the deck and engine crews who opposed the hire of nine engineroom hands to replace men accused of •npporting the recent strike.