Evening star., 1934-07-23
Minneapolis Mayor Cooper
ateS to Open Traffic De-
spite Strike Pickets.
COMMUNIST EVIDENCE
IN WALKOUT SS0UGHT
Vandalism Breaks Out in San
Francisco-Motorma Injured
as Street Car Is Wrecked.
BY the Associated Press.

MINNEAPOLIS, July %. - Five
hundred guardsmen moved in from
the outskirts OF the city today as
police conveys were drawn up TO
move trucks through the ranks OF
striking drivers
The showdown came on the day of
the deadline set for the strikers to
return to work and be assured per-
manent employment. The drivers
were warned by truck owners that
unless they return today. other driv-
had been received by early afternoon.
Consent to an employees election to
determine whether they wanted to be
represented in negotiations with en-
ployers by the Truck Drivers Union.
No. STA, was sought from both sides
by the mediators.
Garbage Collection Held Up.
City garbage collection was abb
ruptly halted today when strike picket
cars appeared at the city incinerator
plant and prevented collectors from
taking their trucks out. Several paw
ing projects were held up because sup
plies could not be obtained due TO
the strike.
At noon 10 Of the 166 trucking con-
Germs represented by the Employers
Advisory Committee, reported that of
their total 2,607 drivers, only 228 were
on strike. The remainder, the COM
mittee said, either were at the plants
waiting to 60 to work or had signifed
their willingness to return.
Two trucks of foodstuffs moved
this morning under police convoy of
20 armed men each. This was in
contradiction of an announcement
from Gov. Olson'S Office that no
trucks would move pending a confer
ence Of the Governor, Mayor A. G..
Bainbridge, Adjt. Gen. e. A. Walsh
and the two Federal mediators.
Strikers cruised the city In auto
mobiles, but no reports of violence
had been received by midmorning.
Mayor Bainbridge last night said
armed police were ready to convoy
any necessary trucks" and are mot
going to permit themselves TO be
beaten up if efforts are made to in
terfere with their demands to do
their duty"
One Is Dead.
One man is dead and 81 others, all
but a few suffering police buckshot
wounds, were recovering from injuries
as the guardsmen swung from the fair
grounds to the downtown armory, ready
to take steps against any outbreak such
as that of last Friday.
Threats of martial law still hung
over the city as the employers Ad-
visory Committee assembled for an
other conference with Federal medi-
ators, while police investigators turned
over to the county attorney findings
which Capt. H. A. Paradeau, captain
Of detectives, said might prove the
basis for criminal syndicalism prosecu-
ton against some of those involved in
the Friday clash.
Capt. Paradeau said he suspected
some of those implicated in the attack
on a truck of merchandise moving
under armed police guard Friday when
the outbreak occurred were Com
munists.
Conference Effort Fails.
The employers refused to disclose
whether letters of warning to return
today were mailed with the intention
Of proving their contention that the
majority of union truck drivers did
not want to strike, but that Com
munistS were behind the movement to
create unrest.
Rev. Francis Haas and E. H. Dunni-
gan, the Federal mediators, had the
agreement of strikers to meet the en-
ployers at Joint conference, but so
far had failed to gain similar word
from the Employers Advisory Com
mittee. They hoped to achieve this
point today.
The Laundry and Dry Cleaners
Union has voted to call a sympathy
strike beginning at am, Tuesday.
VANDALISM BREAKS OUT.