PLANT SEIZED.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18407, 13 June 1925, Page 15

PLANT SEIZED.

STRIKERS CHARGE POWER HOUSE. BATTLE AT CANADIAN WORKS. (BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION— COFrP.IQHT.) (ADaTEALIAS ASD S.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) HALIFAX, Juno 11. After a pitched battle at Glaco Bay, lasting upwards of To minutes, striking members of the United Mine Workers of America charged tho power-house, which had been reopened by the British Empire Steel Corporation on Wednesday in order to save tho coal-mines from further flooding.

Early this afternoon tho minors were in complete charge of the plant. Ono man was killed qnd another shot in tho stomachy Several of the company's police were injured. The power-houso was closed, a week ago, whon tho strikers ejected maintenance men following tho company's refusal to accept tho Hon. James Murdoch, Canadian Minister of Labour, as arbitrator. To-day's incident is the first act of serious violence reported during tho strike, involving 12,000 men in almost every coal-mine in Sydney province, which haa now entered its fourth month The strike followed tho breakdown of negotiations between tho corporation and tho miners for a new contract.

TROOPS CALLED IN.

DISORDERS SPREADING.

(KBCTU's 7XLSGBAUB.)

(Received Juno 12th, 10.53 p.m.) HALIFAX, Juno 12.

-„. Word was received here this morning indicating that the disorders are spreading in. tli© Capo Breton district, where the coal miners are striking. - Rioting is reported to have broken out in New Aberdeen, in the Glace Bay district.

Fjvc hundred troops, fully equipped, are en route to New Waterford, where tho striking miners and police dashed on Thursday. The former arc still in possession of the powerhouse which tiney captured from the police. Looting of the stores of the British JSmpire Steel Corporation, in the vioipity of New; "Waterford, is reported.