Imperial Valley Press

MINNEAPOLIS ANTICIPATES NEW RIOTING

Militia Arrive In City To Prevent Renewal Of Yesterday's Bloody Fighting.

By WILEY MALONEY
United Press Staff Correspondent

MINNEAPOLIS. July 21.—Minneapolis was a powderhouse today, ready to explode momentarily into bloody street war.

Forty-nine men were in hospitals, four in dying condition, as 3000 national guardsmen marched into the city with light artillery, machine guns and truckloads of gas grenades.

An estimated 10,000 union pickets massed at their headquarters and belligerently roamed the streets, daring police and employers of 6000 striking truck drivers to run a gauntlet of guns.

In all groups workers swore vengeance on "the bloody, murdering police" who yesterday shot down 47 pickets in an effort to move a truckload of groceries.

Screaming men fell to the pavement and were trampled in a brief but terrific battle. Two policemen were slugged into unconsciousness and kicked by furious men as they lay prostrate.

Shotguns sprayed the streets with buckshot and 200 national guardsmen rushed the mob with bayonets.

Only the bayonets and massed ranks of the soldiers halted the fight and rescued 100 policemen from 500 pickets who charged them through a rain of buckshot.

Efforts of federal mediators. Gov. Floyd B. Olson and city authorities to end the five-day strike were abandoned temporarily.

Want Vengeance

Union leaders exhorted followers to vengeance and called upon 20,000 additional union members to join them in "licking the police."

They refused even to meet with peacemakers.

"This is war." shouted Grant Dunn, member of the strike committee, at a mass meeting last night.

Dunn said that pickets would prevent every truck in the city from moving today. Whether he meant to include vehicles heretofore exempt from the strike order—milk wagons, ice trucks, sanitary vehicles—was not clear.

Chief of Police Michael Johannes refused to discuss his plans.

He could not say whether he intended to furnish police convoys for more trucks.

One of a number of prevailing rumors after the rioting said one man was killed. A thorough check of all hospitals and morgues did not reveal a body and Adj. Gen. Ellard A. Walsh denied there had been a death.