RIOT AT BETHLEHEM STEEL PLANT
JOHNSTOWN (Penn.), June 13. A riot was precipitated when a negro loyalist employeo answercd taunts of strikers by producing a rovolvor. Fifteen wore injured. Tho negi-o, witli others, was leaving work at the strikooound Bethlehem steel plant when he was confrouted by 700 jGering C.I.O. piclceters. Tho negro produced a rovolvor but he was imraediately dlaarmed and becamo tho ccntre of a milling mob. Tlie negro and fourtecn others wero lmrt.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 127, 15 June 1937, Page 10
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