Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-05-21
MARYLAND STRIKE
ST|RS NEW FIGHTS;
TRUCKS GUARDED
Drivers Beat Off Pickets on
Roads In and Out of
Baltimore.
300 ARE DECLARED OUT;
POLICE GIVE C0NVOYS
Guns Blaze and Stones Are Hurled
During Night After Meeting
Votes Walkout.
BY the Associated Press.

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BALTIMORE, May 2l-Fist fights
and new attempts to block the move
ments of trucks today marked freight
truck drivers strike that earlier had
precipitated shooting and stoning.
Labor organizers claimed the strike
vas general on routes in, out and
Through Baltimore. Police radio cars
conveyed trucks within the city limits
State police patroled the highways.
Louis Frank, driver, told police five
men attacked him and his colored
helper. Daniel King, colored driver,
said he used an iron bar to beat off
two men who boarded his truck. John
Neighbors reported five men in an
automobile forced his truck to the
curb striker and terminal night
Waterman snapped blows in an argu-
ment.
500 Estimated Out.
The estimates of j. E. Rose, Secre-
tary of the local union, showed 800
of the 1900 members of the Truck
Drivers. Chauffeurs, Delivery Men and
Helpers Union were on strike.
Rose claimed freight movements
had ceased between Baltimore and
New York. State police said trucks
still were moving, however. Reports
from Philadelphia and Newark were
that no trucks had been halted there.
Union pickets had been instructed
to avoid trouble. Rose said. He
blamed the strike on the refusal of
two Baltimore companies to recognize
the union. Wages did not enter the
question, he said.
Harry Cohen, union official, said the
refusal earlier this week of a trucking
firm Union Terminal Coz to ratify
an agreement with the Truck Drivers,
Chauffeurs. Delivery Men and Helpers
Union started the trouble
Between 400 and 500 freight truck
drivers voted the general strike at
meeting here last night.
Trucks Fired Upon.
Flying squads of pickets harassed
trucks on the Philadelphia road and
the Baltimore Boulevard
during the night. Two drivers re-
ported they we're fired upon. Others
said stones were hurled at their
trucks.
A State police convoy, under Capt.
NICK. johnson, went to the Delaware
line early today to escort 81 trucks
into the city. All available troopers
were on duty during the night to
patrol the main highways.
George A. Seeburger, owner of one
trucking firm, said he had been "hav-
ing trouble for several months" Yes
terday afternoon, he said. he armed
his drivers with clubs and sent guards
with them. About Is or 20 of his
trucks were halted, and some returned
to their garage, he said.
Violetville Truck Attacked.
James B. Hole and J. Norman Geipe,
officials of two other companies, said
their machines still were in opera
ticn.
Charles Weidenheimer of Violetville.
driver of a Washington Baltimore
truck, exhibited shattered windshield
today. He told police a striker had
fired at him.
Near Halethorpe, on the Washing
ton Baltimore Boulevard, another
driver reported he had been fired
upon, but had not stopped.
At Elkridge, and points along the
Philadelphia road, drivers reported
stones were hurled at them.
Many truck owners in the city Or
dered operations halted and some sent
out messengers to order drivers en-
route to Washington and Philadel-
phia to return to their garages.