Evening star., 1936-05-28
46,0OO ON STRIKE,
LEADERS ASSERT
Agreements Reached Offset
by New WaIkouts-Three
Are Arrested.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Strikes in industry and agricul-
ture were in progress in 20 States
today, marked by scattered disorder.
Agreements reached in some States
were offset by fresh troubles else
where. The number of workers af-
fected was estimated by labor leaders
at more than $4,000.
Ilion. N. Y, police said 100 uni
formed private detectives who had
been sent to guard the Remington
Rand plant had been recalled by
company officials, who said it would
reopen today.
The guards were described by police
as having received a hostile greet
ing" when they walked through the
downtown streets and as having diff
Guilty finding taxicab operators and
bus drivers to take them from the
town.
Three Arrested.
Three men were arrested on a charge
of assaulting a worker at the plant,
which was surrounded by 1000 pickets.
Dallas, Tex, police patrolled taxi
company Offices after two passengers
had been jerked from taxis by sympa-
thizers with 600 striking cab drivers.
All movement of cabs stopped.
At Providence, r. l., the Rocham-
beau Worsted Co. was closed after $50
workers voted to strike because, they
said, q woman employe had been dis
charged because her machine broke
down.
A strike by members Of the Inter-
national Longshoremen's Union at
Milwaukee, Wis, held up the handling
of cargoes on two package freighters.
Union leaders said there were 400
strikers.
A major settlement was reached at
Bedford, Ind, where a committee OF
operators and workmen announced the
end of the strike of crane operators in
the Bedford Bloomington limestone
district, which had thrown $500 men
out of work since May 8. Committee
members said the operators would go
back to work at their old wage scale.
BARRIERS Strike Deadlocked.
Little headway had been made
| toward settlement of the BARRIERS strike
in New York, in which union officials
said 1900 were participating; in the
| strikes of 5000 Arkansas tenant farm
ers, 1000 celery field workers in Cali
| fornia and $500 employees of the
Wheeling Steel Corp. at Portsmouth,
Ohio.
Other States affected by disputes in
| cluded Illinois, Connecticut, Maine,
Massachusetts,. Vermont, Nebraska,
Iowa. South Dakota Oregon. Wash
ington, Minnesota and Pennsylvania.
| Ask Sharecroppers' Aid.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, May % P.-
Sharecroppers and tenant farmers to-
day were asked by the Southern
Tenant Farmers Union to join cot
ton croppers in a general strike in
three East Arkansas counties.
Announcement of the general strike
call was made today by H. L. Mitchell,
secretary of the union, who said he
acted as a result of vote taken here
yesterday at meeting Of strike COM
mittees from St Francis, Cross and
Crittenden Counties.
About so strike leaders attended
the session, at which charges were
made that striking cotton choppers
were being ''terrorized" by planters
and county officers.
Planters and officers greeted the
announcement of the general strike
call with outward indifference. Al
though Mitchell claims 5000 cotton
choppers have walked out, planters say
they have not felt the strike and that
there is no shortage of labor. The
planters and officers deny laborers
have been forced to work. counter
with the charge that the union has
sought to force laborers to leave the
field through threats of bodily harm.
The cotton choppers, who say they
are paid IS cents a day, are asking
ST. so for a l0-hour day. The Ma
tional Executive Committee of the
Socialist party pledged its whole
hearted support" to the cotton chop
pers yesterday at Cleveland.
Denies Employees Held.
| AKRON, Ohio. May % [P.-Police
Prosecutor James Alpeter denied to-
day that some Of the 81 Goodyear
Tire & Rubber Co. union employees
arrested for violation of Ohio riot
laws were held for six hours after
furnishing bond and denied counsel
as charged by Jerome Taylor. at
torney for the United Rubber
Workers Union.
The men were arrested in connec-
ton with a "sit-down" protest at the