Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North last week got a bitter taste of the same sort of strike violence which had plagued the South week before. National Guardsmen were called out in Maine, Connecticut and in Rhode Island, where trouble hit hardest...
First Northern shooting came at small Saylesville, R. I. (pop. 1,416) when deputy sheriffs pumped buckshot into a crowd besieging the local textile plant. On the second day Rhode Island's Governor Theodore Francis Green clamped martial law on the Saylesville district, mobilized his State's entire National Guard...
Jitters, Lawyer, banker, scholar, Fellow of Brown University, 66-year-old Governor Green belongs by birth to Rhode Island's Republican mill-owning class but has cast his lot with plebeian Democrats. Last week he was an old man badly frightened when he asked his State Assembly for: 1) $100,000 to up the State police force from 51 to 1,000 during the emergency; 2) $100,000 more to put 1,000 War veterans under arms; 3) power to close any or all textile mills in the State; 4) power to call in Federal troops, which he said...
Answered the Democratic leader of the Senate: "Don't call in the regular army! Don't militarize Rhode Island for the sake of the selfish interests of a small group of mill-owners! If you want to stop the trouble, stop it at its source, the mills, which are a cancer in this body politic...
...mills at Woonsocket, Saylesville and four other trouble spots closed and the Governor started a Communist round-up on his own authority. Though Federal troops were reported mobilizing in New York and New England, President Roosevelt at Hyde Park appeared to be in no rush to send them to Rhode Island...