The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-03-06

police fought in the streets of Kan sas City, Mo. Nine were arrested hospital treatment.
 Philadelphia was threatened with and woman and @ man required 6 meat shortage when butchers and cutters, joined striking meat truck drivers.
 Alameda, Cal, high and elemen- tary schools were paralyzed by c. 800 striking students, protesting perintendent.
 Saline County, H.. had $500 min CTS of the progressive miners union against the dismissal of a school su- out, protesting that the Peabody Coal company mines were operating with outside labor. The Peabody mines were picketed but no disor- ders were reported.
 Tn Boston six strikers were ar- rested when they battled with po- lice in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent non-union workers from entering garment shops. Approx imately 5000 workers were out.
 Ring Headers of broken hunger strike in the Minnesota reforma- tory at St. Cloud were held in so- litary confinement while other in- 1 mates ate sandwiches and water in their cells.
 A hunger strike of 10 men in
 Pennsylania's eastern penitentia- " was broken when platters heaped with steaks and potatoes were put before the cell block the strikers occupied. The convicts gave up the strike but didn't get the steaks. They got oatmeal, coffee and bread. New York Is Bad New York, March 8-(UP)-The strike of building service employees spread to fashionable midtown ho. tels today and union leaders planned to make the skyscrapers of the Grand Central business zone their next target.
 Chris c. Houlihan, president of To- cal 32-C of the Building Service Em- ployes' International Union, sent strike orders to IS hotels. Among the first affected, according to Houlihan, were the Barbizon- Plaza, Windsor, Wyndham, Murray, Peter Stuyve- sant, Alden and Masters.
 Elevator men, maids and house. men walked out, but the manage ments claimed to have replacements.
 James J. Bambrick, head of local 32-B of the international union which started the strike last Sunday night, claimed 10,395 buildings now were affected by the walkout. He said union agreements had been signed with owners of 1.448 buildings.
 l15 Buildings Agree
 Police estimated that ll5 buildings had signed with the union the Wash- ington Heights and Harlem areas since yesterday afternoon when the strike was extended to these dis tricts.
 Mayor La Guardia, undeterred by the deadlock between real estate representatives and the union, con- tinued to press both sides to agree on arbitration. Edward P. McQrady, assistant secretary of labor. who failed to bring about 6 settlement at an all night conference Thursday, deferred his scheduled departure from the city. He was prepared to go to meeting Of strikers if his pres- ence was requested.
 William D. Rawlins, executive sec- retary of the realty advisory board. which yesterday rejected the union ofier Of abritration, reiterated today he had no intention of conferring again with union officials or repre- sentatives Of the mayor.
 Union Leaders Angry
 Their offers to arbitrate rebuffed. union leaders ordered elevator oper- ators. janItors. superintendents. me. chanics, maids. bell boys. and tele. phone operators out of 2,e00 build- ings in Harlem and Washington Heights last night.
 They said 20.O0e more men and