Evening star., 1934-05-13
V|OLENCEFLARES
ON STRIKE FRONT
One Killed, Many Hurt in
Disorders in Many Parts
of Country.
By the Associated Press.

! BY the Associated Press.
Strike disorders swept Pacific Coast
water fronts from Seattle, Wash, to
San Diego, Calf, yesterday, climax
ing at San Francisco in clash which
brought injuries to six policemen and
eight striking longshoremen.
Twelve thousand dock workers were
ordered back to work in Texas and
Louisiana ports, but in outbreaks at
Galveston, where several lines were
unaffected by the truce, one striker
! was killed and another wounded
Three guards of the Clyde Mallory
Line were charged with murder and
assault to murder in connection with
the Galveston shooting.
The San Francisco injuries were
suffered when a mob of several hun
dred men stormed labor recruiting
office on the water front.
Guard Call Delayed.
Gov. Julius Meier of Oregon tenta-
lively decided not to order the Ma
tional Guard to Portland, where one
policeman was thrown overheard and
several others beaten when strikers
Stormed steamship.
A group of pickets at Seattle threw
Philip Gruger, dock superintendent,
into Elliott Bay, but he was not Sc
riously hurt. Mayor John F. Dore of
Seattle declared an emergency existed
and directed that 100 special police
men be added to the force for the
duration of the public disturbance"
A non-union worker suffered a pos
sible skull fracture when he was
beaten by four men at San Diego.
A strike of 5000 workers at the
New York Shipbmlding Co. plant at
Camden, N. j., was ended when
strikers and company officials reached
a Wage-raise agreement.
Peace Farley Delayed.
Representatives of striking Cleve-
land gasoline station attendants and
of the oil companies conferred for
five hours at Washington without
reaching an agreement, then ad-
Journed until Monday. If then they
are unable to compose their differ
enceS within an hour, Secretary OF
the Interior IckeS will be called into
the conference.
Mediation averted threatened milk
strike at Akron, Ohio. but housewives
busted off cook books as 600 bakers
and bakery wagon drivers remained
on strike. Akron filling station at
tendantS, meanwhile, threatened to
follow the walkout example set at
Cleveland.
Progress was reported at a medi-
alton meeting of striking sewer
pipe workers and manufacturers at
UhrichSville, Ohio.
final decision by the National
Labor Board on the dispute between
the Remington-Rand Typewriter Co.
and its employees was expected to
bring a speedy end to the strikes at
MlddletoWn, Conn, and Syracuse,
Lion and Norwood, N. Y.
Labor Board Aid Asked.
Senator Wheeler of Montana took
the matter of the Montana copper
miners strike to the National Labor
Board in an effort to adjust difficulties
which caused 1000 men to leave the
mines
Miners belonging to company unions
were at work in Western Kentucky
mines at 81 day, pending a decision
on a permanent injunction against
enforcement of the $3.50 NJ r. A.
scale. but 1850 miners of the Hazard
fields of Eastern Kentucky, although
receiving the $3.50 scale. were on
strike against alleged N. R. A. coal
price violations.
Eighteen persons remained in Jail
at Wichita, Kans. facing charges of
criminal syndicalism in connection
with Wednesdays unemployment riots
there
Four Hurt in Clash.
The strike-closed CoWpens mill at
Cowpens, S. c., was put under
heavy guard after four persons we're
injured in rioting between pickets and
a group of persons who attempted to
enter the mill grounds.
Glove makers of Gloversville, Johns
town and other Fulton County. N. Y,
towns voted to end their strike after
receiving 10 per cent wage increase.
The publisher of the Evanston, ILL.,,
News-Index filed suit for an injunc-
ton to prevent picketing by the Chi
cago Typographical Union. The strik-
ers. who have been replaced by out
side employees, charge violation of the
N. R. A. code. Several persons were
injured in clashes between strikers.