Situation Growing Rapidly Worse

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 30, 5 February 1937, Page 7

Situation Growing Rapidly Worse

Motor Strike in America STRIKERS TERRORISING POPULACE United Press Association—By Electric Received Thursday, 9.20 p.m. NEW YORK, Feb. 3. A conference to consider a settlement of the motor strike was adjourned until to-morrow without reaching a decision. It is disclosed that the conference was the result of secret intervention by President Roosevelt who is reported to have authorised Miss Frances Perkins to inform the participants that the President desired a resumption of negotiations. The situation is growing rapidly worse in Flint. Several hundred union men from other cities have arrived and the strikers remain in the plants in defiance of the injunction. The authorities reported that bands of union men and sympathisers are riding about the city in motors, many being intoxicated, and aro terrorising the residents. They fear that nonunion men may attempt reprisals resulting in bloodshed. Police Chief Wills, who said he was chased by twenty car loads of union men when he motored through the strike area on inspection, hastily deputised 500 special politerhon. Ho appealed to the 3500 troops to take over the plants, but the military officers said they were awaiting further orders from Governor Murphy. A conference of military officials and tho union agreed to halt the roving bands of torrorisers and tho city agreed to disband tho special police. Seven thousand union moil are reported to be coming from Detroit for a demonstration at Flint. The troops permitted food to enter the plants.