The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
Troops Shoot Unarmed
Men; Strikers Set Up
Barricades in Streets
BULLETIN

At least three workers
were slain and many
wounded by the rifle fire of
the National Guardsmen
into the mass picket line of
the workers at the Electric
AutO-Lite plant.
Gun-firing continues as
the Daily Worker went to
press.
More National Guards
men were ordered into To-
ledO by Adjutant General
Frank P. Henderson.
TOLEDO, Ohio, May "a
National Guardsmen poured
a fusilade of rifle fire int,
the mass picket line of tht
workers at the Electric Autt
Lite Co. plant, killing severa
and wounding many. Many
were viciously bayonetted. ont
slain worker is identified as Frank
Hubay, 81 years old. At times as
many as 10000 were around the
plant.
The sidewalks are spattered with
blood as the strikers and svmpa-
thetic workers heroically defended
themselves with bricks. and from
behind barbados. The capitalist
press is whipping up hatred against
the heroic workers and is shrieking
for martial Jaw throughout the en-
tire city.
Deadly poison gas was hurled by
National guardsmen, protected by
gas masks, at the thousands of
workers who again and again re-
formed their ranks and fought-out
the entire day today as well as
throughout last night. to maintain
their mass picket lines. Many
workers were bayonetted and others
were seriously affected by tbs
strong poison gas, KOCS (CQ) and
DIN gas, supplied by the army. One
f1fteen-year-old-boy was bayonetted.
Oryille Kane, locomotive fire.
man, had his eyes torn out by one
of these deadly gas bullets when
he was fired on by soldier.
Today the six companies of sew
eral thousand National Guardsmen,
made two main attacks with bayo-
net and deadly poison gas on this
strikers, and sympathetic workers,
mass picket lines. But the workers
both times reformed ranks and
came back to the picket lines.
During the entire night. ten
thousand workers surrounded the
factory, maintaining mass picket
lines, through which the scabs in
side the mill did not dare to pass.
Many were injured as police and
deputies repeatedly threw tear gas
and brought clubs into play. Police
were also injured as workers de-
Tended themselves from tear gas
and clubbing assaults. The national
guard arrived at dawn. and began
at once to set up machine guns, to
bayonet workers, and brought out
the strikebreakers with drawn
bayonets and machine guns, rifles
and poison gas held ready.
The United Press admitted today,
The national guard companies
were modified in neighboring towns
late yesterday. The local national
guard companies were not modified
because military authorities and
local authorities thought it mad
visable to ask soldiers to charge
their own tovnsmcn."
Workers Throw Up Barbados
AS the National Guard charged,
threw deadly gas and bayonetted
right and left, the workers answered
by throwing bricks from improvised
barbados and from behind nearby
houses. The workers called to the
murderous attack of the National
Guardsmen. You're shooting al
your own buddies. We've all got
army discharge papers"
AS the day continued and the
workers continued to fight for their
right to strike and picket, the troops
set up field artillery New troops
poured into the city from Lima