Evening star., 1934-05-26
Labor Leaders Advocate
Immediate Calling of
WaIkout Planned for Con-
sideration June |.
FIRE MENACE ARISES;
ONE HELD FOR ARSON
Renewals of Rioting Draw VOL
leys of Gas Bombs and Rifle
Fire Over Heads of Crowd.
Broun Is Detained Briefly by
Troops After Outbreak.
Bv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOLEDO, May 26.-Strong agita-
ton for advancing the date of a pro-
posed general strike here was under
way in labor circles today.
The original set-up for the proposed
walkout of all union workmen here
had called for a mass meeting June
/ in Court House Square, when the
Committee of % handling the ar
rangements would announce the date
Of the strike.
Labor leaders, who would not be
quoted, said considerable pressure was
being brought to bear to call the
strike Immediately.
Lawrence Aubrey. an officer of the
Motion Picture Operators Union and
chairman of the Committee Of %.
said today 81 of the 103 local unions
here have already voted overwhelm-
1ngly in favor Of the strike.
Aroused to High Pitch.
"The men," said Otto Brach, Sec
retary of Central Labor Union, pro
test not only the refusal of the en-
ployers to settle the automotive work.
ers' strike, but we feel the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association Is try
ing hard to break up the labor move
ment here. And in a majority of in
stances there are continual violations
of provisions of the national recovery
act"
One of the est-informed Toledo
labor men. John Quinlivan. who pre-
ceded Brach as Central Labor Union
secretary until his election as Lucas
County Commissioner a year ago. said
that never in my 25 years of activity
with union labor have I seen the men
aroused to their present pitch.
"A Communist may throw the first
rock. but labor men whom I used to
consider conservatives now are ready
to do almost anything, including die, ="
he declared.
Militia Tighten Lines.
Meanwhile, militiamen tightened
their lines about the riot zone at the
Electric Auto-Lite plant, frankly Wor-
ried over a fire menace as one man
was booked on an arson charge.
A man who gave his name as
Thomas Meyer, 26, was arrested by
National Guardsmen in the area where
renewed rife fire broke out early to-
day in the wake of strikers rejection
Of a peace proposal.
His arrest followed an investigation
of series of incendiary fires during
the night. A. F. CARTE, district fire
chief, said most of a dozen alarms
were false, but that box car and two
houses had been fired with oil waste.
The flames we're extinguiShed quickly
Military officers said they were worried
over the fire menace.
Military Passes Issued.
Military passes were being issued
this morning for the first time to
newspaper men and others who wished
to enter the rio, zone.
National Guard Lieut.. Verne Sill
baugh of Lima, Ohio, was shot in the
thigh by a sniper. His wound was
not serious. The firing later subsidized.
Payton Case. SO. was admitted to
hospital with severe jaw wounds
caused by gas projectile. Peter
Bruner, AZ, was treated for bayonet
wound.
Walter Noland, SO. a bakery en-
gineer, received three hip wounds he
said were inflicted by bayonets. John
o. Quigley, nearby resident, reported
he was shot in the ankle.
Fire Lights Scene.
For a short time the glare of fire,
which attacked a box car and two
homes in the southern edge of the
darkened strike Zone-the sector near
est the downtown section-spread over
the scene where two men were killed
by Guardsmen's fire Thursday.
Though occasional renewals of the
rioting drew rifle volleys and more
gas bombs from soldiers while a union
mass meeting was in progress few
blocks away last night. plans were
made to continue the peace moves
Seventy men were detained by
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