TRINIDAD STRIKE
Deathroll Grows To Fourteen MOB VIOLENCE RAMPANT (Received 24, 8.45 a.m.) PORT OF SPAIN, June 23. Four more persons were killed to-day in a clash between the oilfield strikers and the police, bringing the list of dead to 14." Four platoons of Marines, who were landed from H.M.S. Ajax, established machine-guns in strategic positions in order to proteet the oilfields. H.M.S. Exeter is expected soon with reinforcements. At Rio Olara a mob burned the railway station, tore up the tTacks, and puiled out the telephone wires, isolating the region. The Port of Spain harbour workers have declared a sympathy strike. The island's entire oil industry is crippled, and much other business has been suspended. r
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 135, 24 June 1937, Page 5
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