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• 17MTRAI.1AN AND S.l. CAHi.E ASSOCIATION CARNIVAL OF BLOOD. BUTCHERY OF NON-UNIONTSTS. NEW YORK, June 23 The mine war near Herrin will probablv go down as the most brutal debauchery in the history of labour conflicts. Hundreds of union miners, inllaincd by liquor, marched off the prisoners alter the non-union labourers at the mine had surrendered and beat many of them to death. They hung others and cut them to pieces. Dynamite was used to blow up many thousands of dollars’ worth of property. Innocent r.n were corralled and butchered under the most horrible circumstances. Probably fifty men were killed and more than twenty so seriously wounded that t' ev are not expected to live. Union miners’ wives followed the murderers, applauding their acts. ' . . Spectators declare that the carnival of blood and destruction went on for more than a day.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1922, Page 2
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141AMERICAN ITEMS Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1922, Page 2
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