RIVAL UNIONS CLASH
ATTEMPT TO DYNAMITE TRAIN Serious Turn In Steel Strike (Press Association—Copyright.) Received June 16, 12.5 p.m;: new york' June is. A message from Ambridge, Pennsylvania, states that ■twenty'were injured in an iriter-Union clash, when an effort was made by the National Electric Products Company to reopen its strike-bound plant. Fifty members of the American Federation of Labour were marching to work when they were attacked at the gates by 500 C. 1.0. pickets with clubs, stones and bricks. Police restored peace by means of tear gas bombs. The Niles (Ohio) section of the Pennsylvania railway track leading to Republic Steel's Warren plant was dynamited. A short time earlier, at the same spot, a passenger train knocked a large block of wood from the track. Questioned by the police regarding various incidents, also the derailing occurrence today of a freight-car at Warren, Union members denied any responsibility.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 458, 16 June 1937, Page 5
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149RIVAL UNIONS CLASH Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 458, 16 June 1937, Page 5
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