STRIKE WAR IN U.S.A.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 123, 10 June 1937, Page 9

STRIKE WAR IN U.S.A.

Threat of SKooting ? . . , MIOHIGAN, June 8. Fearing open hostilities between the Republic Steel Cbrporation and the Committee for Industrial Organisation, the . Mayor. of Monroe, Mr Knaggs, calfed on. citizens with military experience to ,'enlist as special policemen to permit the Republic subsidiary to reop.en the 'plant closed as a result . of the strike. - Mr Knaggs alleged that 10,000. G.I.O, vrorkers were planning to fiock ,to Monroe from Detroit . and Toledo. • , t - He hinted that the special policemen will carry Tifles. Meanwhile, minor outbreaks occurred at Youngstown and Massillon (Ohio), when sheriffs ordered .pickets to disarm. The crowd threatened to march upon the Youngstown gaol and deliver three rioters whoi had been arrested. The crowd desisted in face of a 'cOrdon' of guards armed with rifles and tear.gas. At Chicago 29 C.I.O. men who held a sit-dowh strike at the Fansteel, Corporation plant in February in defiance of the Court order were fined up to 1000 dollars and received terms of imprisonment up to eight months. The victim of the steel riot in wKch the police fired on C.I.O. demonstrators, has died. A mass meeting of. the Citizens ' Rights Committee, also the Chicago Church Federation, adopted resolutions demanding an official investigation into the clash. The city of Lansing was paralysed the second day when five pickets who were arrested faced misdemeanour charges.