STRIKE AND FIRE.
RUSSIAN SHIPBUILDERS. TWENTY WORKMEN BURNED TO DEATH. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, June 17.
The Daily Telegvaph states that the workmen in the Baltic shipbuilding yard at St. Petersburg struck, requiring_ the Government building of vessels entirely in Russian yards. Other yards, in sympathy, struck also. . ' A fire broke out on Galernit Island, where there are three Government shipbuilding yards. The fire did damage to the oxtent of 19 million roubles. The firemen saved a battleship and a cruiser, the construction of which was almost completed. Twenty workmen perished in the flames. The strikers are suspected of having caused the fire.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 135, 18 June 1901, Page 3
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