WORK AND WAGES.
MUNICIPAL WORKERS. MENACE THE PUBLIC HEALTH. k iJY Electric Telegraph-Copyright] [United Press Association, j (Received 11.30 a.m.) London, June 11. A strike of municipal workers at Leeds menaces the public health. The streets are not swept, and the gutters are clogged, while the sewage purification works are at a standstill, and the crude effluent is discharging into the river. The strikers are blocking amateur scavengers. The men demand increased wages and better conditions. The Union did not authorise the strike. CITY SHAKEN BY A BOMB. New York, June 11. At Paterson, New Jersey, a bomb explosion wrecked the homes of three strikebreakers. The whole city was shaken. The men miraculously escaped. NEW YORK STRIKE RIOTS. The labor outrages are continuing. Sixteen strikers have been arrested during the riots.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 32, 12 June 1913, Page 5
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131WORK AND WAGES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 32, 12 June 1913, Page 5
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