Evening star., 1934-05-21
SHOEMAKER HELD.
lin TRUCKER STRIKE
Taken Into Custody Upon
Defying Minneapolis
Police Order.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS. May 21.-Rep-
resentation Francis H. Shoemaker,
Farmer-Laborite, of Minnesota was
taken into custody today at the city
market place where he was mingling
with the crowd of police and striking
truck drivers.
Representative Shoemaker, without
tie and in shirt sleeves, was carrying
broom handle when officers took
him into custody. No charges were
lodged against him at police head
quarters, but he was held" the police
said.
Officers said Shoemaker refused to
move on when the police and special
deputies, with which the market place
teemed as employers prepared to move
trucks in the face of the city-wide
strike of drivers, ordered him and a
group of strike pickets to disperSe.
$4,000 Will Walk Out.
Meanwhile, the Minneapolis Build
ing Trades Council, embracing $4,000
workers, voted to walk out in a SYM
pathy strike today shortly after 81
men, including both union truck driv-
er strikers and police officers, were in
jured as police sought to break a
week-long paralysis of commercial
truck traffic
c. Hagland, secretary of the Build
ing Trades Council, announced the
strike vote shortly after truck union
heads had withdrawn force Of pick
cts estimated at 500 from the market
area, where police were victorious in a
f1ght to permit movement of trucks.
In the market place melee. one
policeman was stabbed, a striker was
believed to have suffered a fractured
skull and two other police officers
suffered broken bones as both sides
rushed in with clubs.
Is Policemen Injured.
The casualty list included l8 police
men and 19 strikers
Officials of the Central Labor Union
called rioters away from the scene of
the market fight to meet in the Labor
Temple, with an announcement they
hoped to effect a truce.
One thousand special policemen
were added to the normal force and
800 special deputy sheriffs were on
duty, 200 of them participating in
the market place dispute.
simultaneously a committee of IL
citizens appealed to the National
Labor Board to step in and end the
strike and Gov Floyd B. Olson sent
letter to the Employers Commit
tee asking them to accept arbitra-
ton after his early attempts in this
direction had failed.
Riots Break Out Again.
The market place loomed as the
focal point of strike developments
as strikers, armed with clubs, milled
of trucks which owners insisted would
be conveyed by heavy guard and spe-
cial police.
Strikers were at the scene at dawn,
as several produce firms began NOV
ing out trucks loaded with vegetables.
berries and other perishables. Police
we're already on hand. The majority
of the strikers were armed with clubs,
bats and poles. Many carried rocks
AS two trucks started out a mass
of pickets stepped into the alley-way
to block them.
Policemen Are FeIled.
Police clubs swung. The pickets
surged into the fray. swinging clubs
themselves. Nearly 20 policemen and
as many pickets dropped to the pave
ment, their heads streaming blood.
One tall picket drew a flashing
knife from his belt and swung it
viciously 1t lashed across the back
of policemans neck, inf1icting a deep
cash. Police ran to their cars and
unlimbered their riot guns, taking sta
tions around the outskirts of the
battle
The slugging lulled with the appear
ance Of shotguns and strikers fell
back.