LABOUR TROUBLES.
NEW YORK WATERFRONT. CLASH WITH THE POLICE. MANY PEOPLE INJURED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. NEW YORK, May 16. The sporadic labour trouble along the waterfront In New York reached a climax to-day when 2000 pickets belonging to the maratime unions and sympathisers engaged In a clash with the police, which lasted an hour. Twenty-five of the pickets were Injured, some of them seriously, and two policemen were injured. Several of the strikers were arrested.
For some time the left wing union, which is said to be affiliated to Harry Bridges’ San Francisco organisation, has been striking against several steamship lines operating between the east and the west coast. To-day the picket line was formed in anticipation of the sailing of the liner Virginia for San Francisco. According to the police the pickets ignored a warning not to cross the police line and when they did so a fight started.
Mounted policemen repeatedly charged the pickets, swinging their batons freely. At least five women were among the injured.
In spite of t.he disorder the Virginia sailed according to schedule, although the strikers claimed that she was under-manned.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19888, 18 May 1936, Page 7
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189LABOUR TROUBLES. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19888, 18 May 1936, Page 7
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