Labour Riots in the States.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 7, 9 July 1894, Page 2

Labour Riots in the States.

FURTHER I,FIGHTto« BETWEEN I RIdTERS AND. POLICE. GREAT DESTRUCTION OP PRO--1 ■ ' > PERTY A NUMBER OF RIOTERS SHOT. (Per Press Association.) ' " NKwYotK,Jalj7. The troops in Chicago are Pliable to cope witn the rioters. The troops charged the mob and were allowed to fire. The rioters dispersed at the approach of the military, but" imtnedw ately afterwards resumed an aggressivs attitude. Obstruction to the railway traffic was also resumed, the strikers wrecking, plundering^ burning a thousand cars, besides derailing cattle trains. The losses to th» Railway- Company are enormous, miles of track being torn un-atfl-* number of 'engines; jlisabled. - Orer 100 switch signal towers "have been destroyed. - ' .. . One hundred thousapd .men hare been dismissed from factories owing to the lack of fuel. r; ~ Rioters attacked a train leaving Chicago, and after a lively fnaijade the. former retired with four killeaiT The Government is masting A l6>ooo troops in the Chicago, district, as they fear an attack on Pullman Town*. - The rioters in Chicago hare^surnt 2000 Pullman cars' and one Billion dollars worth of cars in Wisconsin. The strike is extending to the Eastern railways. - nt " "~ r r Nine-tenths of the people in! ' California are aiding the strikers, * and even the militia are assistiag. thpm. Similar scenes are enacted at other chief termini out West. Chicago, July & A mob numbering 10.000 fought the police with bludgeons, * and wrecked a portion of the railway buildings. Civil war is threatened in the city, , .