The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-16
General Strike On
 At San Francisco
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1 to obey orders to move on. Eigh- teen arrests of that nature were ] made in an hour.
 There was delivered to newspa- per offices statement signed | American Citizens Protective League" which said "the vigilan. les are getting ready to march | again." The league claimed 1,00t members.
 Conditions FriShtful Conditions here were without | parallel in the history of any American city. Transportation fa- cilities were badly crippled. Not a taxi-cab was on the streets. Hun- dreds of private cars were useless because of a gasoline shortage. An acute food shortage seemed entire ly probable unless authorities took drastic steps to establish emergen- cy means of delivery.
 The first food riot occurred last | night when mob stormed gro- | cery store. Labor, exerting the power of organized mass, designa- | ted 16 restaurants which will be were closed and the others were SAPSStSA tO SAOoS WhSh thClt | workers join the walkout. Two of the city's three street transportation systems were tied up completely and active efforts to prevent operation of the third | the municipal car lines-were in 1 progress. Officials of the city lines announced the cars would run, un" der police guard if necessary and with citizen volunteers in the last | extremity.
 The state highway patrol, CO., 1 operating with county sheriffs, all under the orders of Gov. Frank F. | Merriam, were organizing cara vans of trucks from the agricul- tural regions to run food into the Bay region through picket lines | and under armed escorts. Threats Are Made Charges were made by labor leaders, San Francisco industrial association secretly had mustered | private army" of men and
 trucks which would attempt to break the blockade of deliveries of food and other goods.
 eff they carry out the pIan," an- ilOouSCd IIdtIy SSSg lcll-WllS strike leader, our men will surely try to stop them."
 Thus a community of a million and half people, in four counties, comprising an area probably 40 miles square, was sternly embat- ted.
 It was dug in" as certainly as in wartime siege. In three days housewives of the territory had bought up and carried home a stock of staple foods grocers said was equivalent to their usual 30- day supply.
 Violence during the night was comparatively rare. Presence of 2,000 national guardsmen already on duty on the waterfront and of the heaviest police guard the city has seen since the days of earth quake and fire in 1906 probably had much to do with maintaining good order.
 Citizens Are Aroused
 The citizenry, a large portion of it sympathetic with the cause of the strikers, was aroused to its own interests.
 Mayor Rossi planned commit tee of 500 citizens ito function in the emergency" He will announce its personnel today. This commit tee will assist in supervising po- lice work, arrange food distribution and carry out tasks deemed for the public good.
 Attempts to mobilize state troops near the San Francisco Bay district in secret failed.
 Reports federal troops would be called in were denied.
 Passes to and from the Presidio to San Francisco, where federal troops are stationed, and also leaves, were curtailed.
 Two thousand state troops re- ported on their wal from Morro Bay were said to comprise the 1S5th infantry and a large con- tingent of coast artillery. The movement could be completed by midday. The distance is about 22O miles.
 First convoy of food trucks bound for San Francisco was or- ganized at Sacramento to begin moving, under escort of motorcycle highway patrolmen, early today. Included two truck loads of meat, two of bread, two of produce sud two trucks from the state emer- gency relief administration with miscellaneous supplies.
 Other conveys were to be