"STRIKE PATTERN OF 1938: GAS & GUNS IN CHICAGO:Strike melee at the Chicago Hardware Foundry Co. sprays tear gas over pickets, police, photographers and onlookers. In the foreground is a masked deputy firing tear-gas bullets. His gun is capable of projecting them about 100 yards. A prisoner is led away by a trio of police, grimacing in pain as one of his captors twists his arm. He is equipped wih a homemade gas mask, a new sight on Labor's battle front. Flag-bearer is ushered from the battlefield, eyes streaming from the tear-gas bombardment. Other pickets succumbed to vomiting gas, effects of which last longer than those of tear gas."
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