Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-09-24 | Page 10 | Lettuce Strike Parley Fails

LETTUCE STRIKES STRIKE t PARLEY FAIL SALINAS Cal Cat Sept 24 UP UP- UP Labor marshaled its forces to toor totor teds for tor or renewed demonstrations of i ii strength in the Salinas valley lettu strike after Governor Frank Meriams Meriams Me lams lam's arbitration conference Sacramento ended in failure Strikers In increasing numbe picketed the tho lettuce packing plan which were the scene last week i violence between strikers and healy hea ly ily armed state county and disorders police olice disorders which spread Int mt Inthe the he heart of downtown Salinas an ati an led ed Sheriff Carl Abbott to declare state of emergency and draft 20 citizen police Women pickets paraded in fron of the city hall and the tho county jai ja jait t to 0 oday d a ny y bearing banners sayin Where is Abbott 1 and Who i Sanborn 1 I The signs referred to the fac tac Sheriff Sherif Abbott and Police Chic George Georgo Griffin GrUnn had been makin makini their headquarters with represent represent-a fives of tho the shippers grower-shippers on th Ui barricaded sixth floor of or the h hotel tel here Colonel Henry Sanborn retire army array chaplain and professions anticommunist agitator had bee been called In as coordinator of al alarmed alarmed alarmed armed forces combating the strike and then suddenly dismissed he released several statements ov ove the signature of the police chief an an sheriff charging reds were re responsible responsible responsible for the strike violence While the Fruit and unions union's strike strategy committe tei met toda today to discuss the unsuccessful ful Sacramento arbitration confer conte erice truck loads of lettuce contin conti continued to move unmolested from field fiel to the p packing plants