Labour Strikes in the States.
— — ♦- RAILWAY COMPANY STOPPED RUNNING TRAINS. MILITIA HELD IN READINESS. 100,000 COLLfERS OUT ON STRIKE. THEIR EXORBITANT DEMANDS. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION). Ni:w York. April 23. The colliors sfcriko in tho United States has begun, and a large body of Coxeye's men are arranging to assist them. The Omaha Railway Companies have stopped services, fearing outrages, and tho city is thus isolated, 'I ho militia is called to be in readiness, and citizens are urged to provide wagons to assist tho oxodus from tho town. Washington, April 23t A hundred thousand colliers aro now on strike. Tho labor malcontents demaud that five hundred million dollars shall be expended on relief works.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 296, 24 April 1894, Page 2
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114Labour Strikes in the States. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 296, 24 April 1894, Page 2
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