Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Lawyer Hurley, suing Lawyer Williams and the three policemen for $25,000 damages for his arrest, put on his 1932 bathing suit, sploshed water on it, sprawled on the floor in Judge William J. Lindsay's Superior Courtroom in Chicago. The jury giggled and gaped, deliberated 95 minutes, decided in favor of Lawyer Williams but assessed $100 damages against the three policemen who had defaulted by not appearing...
...Police will arrest for topless suits in Atlantic City, St. Louis, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Syracuse, N. Y., Toledo, Galveston, El Paso, Springfield, Mass., Birmingham, Evansville, Ind., Baltimore...
...over by strikers who stopped traffic of every description. They called it "Strike Law." Airplanes, making regular flights to deliver food to the plants at Warren and Niles, were sniped at and repeatedly hit by rifle bullets. The company offered $1,000 reward (unclaimed) for information leading to the arrest and conviction of snipers...
Affidavits from the arresting officer and witness declare that Mr. Blackton, driving a truck, was stopped by officers as he approached a courthouse at which the permits are supplied, and was notified that such a permit was necessary and requested to obtain same. Without hesitation and in plain view of the officers who had notified him, Mr. Blackton drove his truck past the courthouse and on out of town. The officers followed, arrested him as they should have, and brought him back to be fined. To show further that Mr. Blackton knew well in advance what the requirements were...
...head of S. W. O. C., charged that Republic Steel had sent seven company policemen, some of them formerly employed by Jones & Laughlin, to interfere with the election. Jones & Laughlin denied knowledge of their presence, Republic said they were merely sent as observers, but warrants were issued for their arrest. Meanwhile at Pittsburgh and neighboring Aliquippa, 24,000 of Jones & Laughlin's 27,000 workers filed quietly through the National Labor Relations Board's polling places in the plants, cast ballots voting "yes" or "no" on representation by S. W. O. C. Near dawn next morning the Labor...