PITCHED BATTLE WITH POLICE
STRIKE AT FEVER HEAT 120 INJURED IN STREET Women Participate In Riot Press Association —Copyright. (Received 12.5 p.m ) Cleveland, June 30. One hundred and twenty were injured, twenty seriously, in a. street battle in which, the police attempted to separate C. 1.0. strikers and workers seeking to return to the local knitting mills. The battle started when 100 police attempted to prevent a clash be tween 300 non-strikers and 900 pickets an'di strike sympathisers'. Nearly a hundred women participated, scratching and pulling the hair of the police. At Canton, Ohio, the Republic Steel Corporation reopened the gates o£ the mills after the militia Sad ended the picket. There was a barrage of stones, in which a dozen returning workers were injured. Hundreds, of strikers’ sympathisers hurled stones and bolts at the workers, until the soldiers’ charged the crowd and arrested eight. The. management said that 1300 had returned, the normal personnel being 8000
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 461, 1 July 1937, Page 5
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157PITCHED BATTLE WITH POLICE Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 461, 1 July 1937, Page 5
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