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Careening down Waterloo Road to the Stockton Food Products Co. came a truckful of spinach. As it slowed to enter the gates, strikers leaped upon it, tore off ropes, tossed crates of spinach into the street. Others dragged Tony Machado, the driver, from his mesh-protected cab. Police rushed to his rescue throwing gas grenades. The strikers fell back coughing, charged again. Behind a barricade surrounding the cannery deputies opened fire with riot guns. In the first fusillade, Striker Bill Tucker went down with a face and chestful of birdshot (see cut). The battle raged back and forth. Fourteen automobiles...
...look like cannon (see cut). Far from innocuous were the clubs and blackjacks with which they had armed themselves, the great iron bins lined three deep inside plant gates, filled with such missiles as bolts, pipe joints, grenade-sized automobile parts. "Troops might get through here," a striker confided to Scripps-Howard's Raymond Clapper, "but you ought to see what we've got inside. We have much more material than this piled around each stairway." "It would be folly," roared the New York Herald Tribune, "to call the sit-in strike of Detroit...
...speech at Newark in answer to Mr. Hoffman. He pointed out that strikes are legal. "What is the difference," he asked "if a man sits down inside or sits down outside?" The only difference he could find was that sitting down inside is easier and safer for the striker. To the argument that sit-down strikes break property laws, he argued back that the right to a good pay check is a property right just as much as the right to own property. With that argument, he advanced the sit-down debate a long...
Raising one of their steel rams, the besiegers began to batter at a nailed-shut door. Down on them rained a shower of bolts, nuts, pulleys, bottles filled with nitric acid. Behind a barrage of tear gas, the officers joined battle. Strikers turned on the plant's ventilating system, cleared out the gas almost as fast as it came in. One excited deputy was burned with his own gas bomb. Acid containers hit two policemen, splashed them painfully. One striker quit the plant badly gassed. After two hours the officers ran out of tear gas and Sheriff Doolittle...
...space for the seaman's photograph, signature and fingerprints. There are spaces for official records of 84 voyages. Duplicate information must be sent to Washington. Seamen call them "fink books," claim that they lend themselves perfectly to blacklisting by the shipowners. If a seaman is an agitator or striker, all the line has to do is record the number of his book, then refuse ever to hire him again...