The American Strikes.
♦ - The miners of Tracey City, Tennessee, have seized a number of convict labourers, put them on board a train, and deported them from the city. .The switchmen on New York, Lake Erie, Western Lehigh, and Buffalo Creek railways have struck for higher wages. The strikers fired on two trains, consisting of 60 carriages, and on the houses occupied by the watchmen. They also derailed a passenger train, but fortunately this act was not accompanied with loss of life. The police and soldiers are restoring order. Two hundred cars were burned by strikers on the Lehigh and Erie lines. • The Tracey City miners have carried off a number of other convict labourers despite the efforts of the police.
The miners of Tracey City killed several of the convicts whom they seized* The Governor of the State .declares that hfl will order the ringleaders of the outrage to be shot in in the event of their being' captured.
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Manawatu Herald, 18 August 1892, Page 2
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159The American Strikes. Manawatu Herald, 18 August 1892, Page 2
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