| Show NEW NW RIOTS BREAK O OUT N IN IN TO TOLEDO DO National Guardsmen Open Fire on Mob of Strikers Two Men Reported ed Killed Tear Gas Fails to Disperse Throng Gathered Outside Electric Plant TRUCE EFFORTS PRESSED Co Arrival of Soldiers Frees Im Workers NEW ORLEANS May 21 24 AOne JOne J- J A- A One man was shot and 30 others othera arrested as police repulsed an attempt at at- tempt by striking lon longshoremen to prevent the loading of two ships ship at the end end of Washington avenue late today By Dr Associated Press TOLEDO Ohio May 24 24 One One man nan was was vas killed and four or live five others wounded as national guard troops troop opened fire on rioters at the Electric Auto Lite plant this afternoon A second man was r reported slain at p p. p m. m Adjutant General Frank D. D Hen Hen- at Columbus late today ordered or dered four more companies es of national na na- na guardsmen to Toledo TOLEDO Ohio May Thc 24 UP The UP-The The Electric Auto Auto Lite Lite company plant b became became be be- came an embattled fortress today while state troops guarded it with bayonets and gas guns against a mob of ot striking workmen National guardsmen twice were forced to loose a barrage of gas to quell efforts of the mob to continue rioting Strikers retreated slowly and gathered at a distance to scream imprecations imprecations im im- im at the troops Six Siz pcr persons ons had md been injured during during during dur dur- ing the tho day days day's s lighting fighting One mans man's face Cace was almost blown away by an exploding gas shell Another Another- w was struck in the leg with the same sort of missile One man was shot in tho the leg with a rifle bullet a wom woman n suffered suf sur ered severe head injuries from a club and two men were bruised and beaten Plant Is Battered Battered walls waits broken windows and charred remains of numerous small fires gave mute evidence of the wrath which strikers turned against the company which has refused to recognize their union The plant was empty of all save militiamen company and a asmal small smal gang of workmen repairing damage from last nights night's fighting lighting Some 1800 men and women strikebreakers strike strike- strikebreakers breakers held prisoner in the plant for almost almast 24 2 hours by the mob were freed by the arrival rival of national guardsmen this morning Guardsmen were equipped with gas masks and when they let go a gas attack they advanced under its cloud prodding right and left with bayonets bayonets bayo bayo- nets and md bawling orders order for the mob to disperse There were many man women in the crowd most of ot them not strikers Troopers pleaded with those who were obviously spectators to leave Mob Iob Grows Steadily The mob grew steadily as noon approached Strikers and hecklers refused to disperse They withdrew when gas ga was loosed but shoved quickly forward again All auto aulo traffic was forbidden in inthe inthe the area Soldiers were given orders to lo release release re rc re- re lease gas as any time bricks were hurled E. E H. H Dunnigan an conciliator for lor the department of labor called together Continued on P Pa Pate ee e Two TW TROOPS SHOOT DOWN RIOTERS Open Fire When Mob Begins At Attack ack Upon Electric Plant in Ohio Jl iL Continued from Pace Pue One labor abor officials Thomas Ramsey bus busi ness agent of the union and members of the re regional i labor board for a conference con con- ference looking toward a truce Former Presidents President's Son Sons SonIs Is s Named Mediator WASHINGTON May 24 JP- JP Charles P. P Taft of Cincinnati was appointed today by Secretary Perkins Perkins Per Per- kins tins as special mediator in Iii the Toledo Toledo To To- ledo Electric Auto Lite strike Taft is the son o of William Wllliam Howard Taft former president and chief jus jus- tice Uce National Guard Mobilized In Minneapolis Strike MINNEAPOLIS May 24 2 Na JP-Na- guardsmen were mobilized for strike duty and ready for call today as striking truck drivers driver and truck owners owners' observed a truce under which neither side will take an any action before before be be- fore 9 p. p m. m Michael Johannes chief of oC police asserted more than communists and sluggers from Irom outside the city had arrived in the last week determined determined deter deter- mined to lead tru truck k drivers into vio yb- lence Pacific Longshoremen's Strike May Spread SAN FRANCISCO May 24 iT 11 P Reports of threatened industrial stagnation stagnation stag stag- nation n spread along the Pacific coas coast today as striking maritime workers tightened their siege stege and the possibility possibility of tying up all ports of the nation was brought forward Joseph P. P Ryan president of the International Longshoremen's Longshoreman's as I- I allan flew new westward from tram New York Vork to aid peace negotiations He was reported optimistic over prospects for tor settlement A severe food shortage threatens Alaska the chamber of commerce said in an appeal to the strike media mediation tion lion board here Curtailed industrIal industria activities were reported from points along the thc coast because of lack of shipping facilities |
