In Minneapolis

When striking truckmen rioted in Minneapolis last year two special policemen were killed (TIME, June 1934). One night last week another howling, ugly-tempered mob milled around Minneapolis' Flour City Ornamental Iron Co., which strikers from six other local iron plants had been trying to shut down since early July. Inside the plant, where they had worked, eaten, slept for three days, cowered 18 non-union workers.

About 11 p. m., when the mob had grown to 4,000 strong, 100 policemen set out to break it up with tear gas. The crowd fell back, surged up again behind a barrage of rocks. Nobody knew who fired the first shot, but soon guns were crackling on both sides. When the fighting ended at 2 a. m., some 30 persons were injured and two young men who had been innocently passing by, one on his way home from a church social, lay dead.

Next day Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson moved the besieged non-unionists out under police guard, shut down the Flour City plant under threat of martial law.

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