CALL OUT THE GUARD

To maintain law and order, which was beyond the ability of the police, nearly two-thirds of the states were forced to call out the National Guard in 1934, thus adding to the American tax burden. (Above) California National Guard on waterfront, San Francisco, during the general strike. (Below) National Guardsmen erecting barbed wire barricade in street at Saylesville, R. I., to prevent repetition of bloody riots in which a score of pesons had been injured.

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