TEAR GAS USED.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 366, 22 February 1937, Page 5

TEAR GAS USED.

U.S.A. FACTORY.

Henry Ford’# Opposition To

Unionism.

■■• press Association—Copyright. New York, February 20. _One hundred and twenty policemen and; deputy-sheriffs failed to dislolfige more than 100 "sit-down” strikers at the two plants of the Fansteer Metallurgical Corporation, maker® of fine parts for automobiles, at Waukegan, Illinois, yesterday. Tear gas bombs were exploded inside the buildings, but the strikers mopped their streaming . eyes and held off attackers, hurling at them bottles of tungsten and tantaflum valued at £lOO each, fragment* of molybdenum and heavy steel weights. They also hosed the attackers with fire extinguishing acid The strikers demanded .recognition of their union. Company officials alleged (hat the itrik® was called merely to injure the company's business.

Six persons, three of whom were strikers, were injured yesterday, but the strikers refused medical aid. A policeman and a deputy-sheriff Were burned with acld, ( and another deputy-sheriff was hurt by an exploding gas bomb. Mr Henry Ford in an interview at Waynesville, Georgia, to-day advised all workers to stay out of labour organisations. He contended that international financiers were behind thq labour unions because they wanted to control industry and kill competition. "They cause all the strikes,” he said. “I am thoroughly convinced that the cure for strikes and other labour difficulties is high minimum wages.”