The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-25
gun barricades and through the broken windows Of the factory.
 Plant Was Wrecked

gun bMTFlcMneb hWu turUHkH tUe broken windows of the factory.
 Plant Was Wrecked
 Ths plant itself and the entire neiR hborho0d were wrecked.
 Broken bricks and stones, tho chief wehDOns of the rioters, formed n thick blanket over ass phalt, sidewalks and lawns.
 Ninety per cent of tho plants hundreds Of windows were broken, Inside, machinery and office oquip- meat wcrh badly damaged.
 Damage t0 tho plant was estl- mntod at t2O0,00O by company of- fioiala.
 The troops released hundreds oi gas bombs and fired hundreds 0f shots during yesterdays and last nights mad fi0tlng.
 Practically all tho shots were fired over ths heads of the scream Ing ncn and women who hurled bricks and stones at the military.
 Tho bombs contained n powerful gas that caused its victims to Do. como violently nauseated. The number made ili by It's fumes was impossible t0 count, but would amount 70 several hundred.
 Peace in Minneapolis
 Minneapolis, May 26--tUp)--- The Minneapolis truck drlvats' strike Hpsedad toward a peaceful settlement today after n week. Of intermittent rtoting.
 While national KuardHfnsn rested on thair arms and quiet relgped under an indefinite truce, u0v Floyd B. OlHon jumped bstwesn strikers and employers and led them to a "HnbhtnDAi1l agrees mont." subject to ratification later in tha day.
 Gov Olson announced hn accord had been reached with tho exasp' ton of 1.-two minor changes iH phrnHeoiOHy" which ho said had been asked by tho workers and which hs planned tO submit to the employers with every hope oi success"
 Tho announeemen Game after q night 0f conferences in which the governor Rhuttlsd back and forth between the strikers and employ sgs' committees. convened ln buiid' inEs hve blocks apart.
 The governors shoulders AaKgsd wahriiy and his rsd-rimmad eyes revealed plainly the stress of an almost sleepiash week,
 But hs smiled us he asserted that "thIs strike is oyer. l don't think thsra'h h possible chance that our terms won't be accepted" |"
 Ths accord brought emotional raiisf t0 a city which Hav n bust. ness and civic leader killed and mora than 800 parsons injured in q week of mob figuts. Al tha climax Tuesday, 1000 strikers bhttlsd all over the city market district with thousands of police and deputy hhsrIffs,
 Wagner Tabor Act
 Washington, May 2E---tUP)-- Bpurred by violence nt Toledo, Minneapolis and elsewhere. the Roosevelt administration moved today to put ths Wagner labor dis putes biii in position for quick en- actment if strikes, riot and iab0I unrest spread. it may reach the senate floor by nightfaii.
 The bill would create a board C adjust labor troubles. it would bolster and cinrify famous section Tea of ths National Industrial its' e0veFy act, which guarantees tt worksrs ths right of collective bargaining.
 The bill in its present form would impose majority ruis Of labor.
 An individual worker would bs guaranteed the right to join n ia Dor organization of his own ch0os. ing. But the union representing [ ma ajority Of the workers would ns' g0tlate wage and other agree fnents These would apply t0 al workers in ths plant. Company unions would not be outlawed ai, though that was originally Wsg' nsf's purpose.
 Dispute over interpretation oi Tea ts at the bottom of much GA. istiDg labor trouble. There is com piaint that labor decisions under MIRA have not been definite and clear cut regarding the closed AhDf