Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1919 — TIE UP BUENOS AIRES [ARTICLE]

TIE UP BUENOS AIRES

TWENTY THOUBAND BTRIKERB FIGHT THE POLICE. Protest Use of Power by the Btats — Attack and Destroy Street Care. Buenos Aires, Jan. 10. —'Another battle between the, strikers here and the government forces began at the Vasena iron foundry. Meanwhile the strike movement is spreading and more than fifty unions have Joined. At least 100,000 laborers are affected. In the fight at the Vasena Iron foundry 20,000 strikers surrounded the plant In an attempt to force strikebreakers to leave it. The government rushed up a squadron of national mounted police to escort the workers to safety. During the afternoon street cars and taxicnbs were overturned or destroyed. As night approached the situation admittedly was assuming grave proportions. Nearly all the industries of the city, Including the transportation lines; have been paralyzed by a 24-hour general strike called In protest against the “use of force by the state” in the fight Tuesday, in which five metal workers were killed and thirty wounded. The strike was declared by the regional labor federation which was formed a few years ago by trades unions expelled from the Fifth labor congress because of alleged anarchistic tendencies.