STRIKE AT VANCOUVER
DISCLOCATION ON THE WATERFRONT AN I.W.W. OFFICER LYNCHED By Telegraph—Presa Association. Auckland, August 27. General dislocation on tho Vancouver waterfront was recently caused by a strike of wharf labourers. The trouble began on July .'SO. After an anxious week, in which there were instances,of violence being used by strikers, the men went back to work oa August 5. That evening tho activity of tho port v.as Fiillv resumed. A leading officer of tho 1.W.W., Frank Little, was taken from his lodging-houso at 3.30 a.m. by mashed men, and hanged to a railroad trestle on Iho outskirts of the city. After searching- the lodginghouso, six of tho men found Little, and carried him into a waiting automobile. The body was discovered by tho police at S o'clock. A card on the body boro Ihe figures .1-7-77, Iho old sign of Iho vigilant-, in Montana, Montana messages indicate that Iho lynching was due to the wrath of citizens at the I.W.AV. operations in connection with tho strike.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3175, 28 August 1917, Page 6
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168STRIKE AT VANCOUVER Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3175, 28 August 1917, Page 6
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