SIT-DOWN STRIKES

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 403, 9 April 1937, Page 5

SIT-DOWN STRIKES

FARMERS ROUSED. » MOB ATTACKS WORKERS. Sticks and Clubs Used In Pennsylvanian Factory. Press Association—Copyright. Received 11 a.m. Montreal, April 8. A message from Hel’shey, Pennsylvania, says that angry farmers enthe plant of the Hershey Chocolate Corporation to-day and expelled the sit-down strikers. The farmers, whose market for 800, 000 pounds of milk daily has been destroyed* as a resull of the strike, were armed with sticks and clubs, with which they beat the siijdown strikers 1 , many of 'Whom were taken to hospital. A brass band headed the farmers. Attack on Unionism. A message from Waycross, Georgia, says that Mr Henry Ford has announced. that there was a brief sit down strike at the St. Louis assembly plant, a dozen strikers bein* escorted outside. Production iwias not affected. “We will never recognise the Union of Automobile Worker:’ or any other union,” he said, “but we hold nd ! grudge against the strikers and woulc again hire them. We know that men wtere duped and -coei'tted by union , leaders.

“Those who' seize property not their own are in -the some category as housebreakers,” Mi. Ford continued. “Public officials should protect our rights. Workers participating in recent strikes have lost. They are being organised and their freedom taken away. They pay money to unions and get nothing in return. History shows that all improvements o labour have resulted from industry and not from co ercion of politics.”