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...announced, and issued a call to the National Guard. Soon 2,300 Guardsmen were in Flint, most of them camping on the grounds and in the building of Flint's abandoned junior high school. Among the guardsmen called to the colors was one Verl Lahs, a sit-down striker in the Cadillac plant in Detroit. His fellow strikers voted to excuse him from sit-down duty because of their "great respect for law and order and the Michigan National Guard." The Guardsmen spent their time at the high school scrubbing floors and standing by, for the violence had subsided...
...strikebreakers lined up, marched toward the yards. Picketers met them with fists, bricks, clubs, lead pipes. Police rushed in with tear gas, managed to separate the rioters for a few minutes. On the second clash, five fire engines bore down on the seething mass-at 50 m.p.h., said strikers. Four men were seriously hurt, more than 100 banged and bruised. One aging striker was found dead of heart failure. State police continued to break up picket lines until Governor Earle called them off. This week, after President John G. Pew had appealed for a "Happy Christmas" at work, with discussion...
...tried social service, advertising, found neither satisfactory, joined the bustling exodus of young U. S. literati who went abroad in the early 1920's. First reporting Miss Thompson did was freelance work for London papers. When she brought in the last interview given by famed Irish Hunger-Striker Terence McSweeney, Fleet Street began to take Miss Thompson seriously. Soon a roving correspondent for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, she achieved another resounding scoop by interviewing ex-Emperor Karl of Austria at the climax of his second attempt to regain the Hapsburg throne in 1922. By 1924 she was chief...
Among his books of poems have been, "A Boy's Will," "North of Boston," "Mountain Interval," "New Hampshire," "West Running Brook," and "A Lone Striker...
Evening papers followed suit and the process was repeated for the next two days until arrival of strikebreakers imported from New Jersey. They managed to put together an eight-page printed edition of the Republican, but not until four strikebreakers and one striker were mauled, linotype machines battered by vandals and advertisement forms destroyed. A truckload of rotogravure sections from New York was hijacked, burned. Next day all four papers reverted to the typewriter and photo-engraving plant for most of their pages...