Serious State of Affairs in Canada.
Longshoremen on strike at Montreal attacked nen-unionists, shoot-
ing one. They then set fire to the cargo on one of the steamers of the Leyland line, which was lying at the wharf, thereby endangering the Canadian Pacific Railway Company’s grain elevators. The fire on the steamer was extinguished.Six arrests were made.
Twelve hundred militia are guarding! the harbour front and protecting non-unionists. f The shipping companies threaten to import thousands of English j lumpers,
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Manawatu Herald, 12 May 1903, Page 2
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80Serious State of Affairs in Canada. Manawatu Herald, 12 May 1903, Page 2
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