STRIKE RIOTS IN AMERICA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4160, 9 July 1892, Page 2

STRIKE RIOTS IN AMERICA.

Sensational Iffair at Pittsburg. Serious Loss of Life. - (Per United Press Association). Washington, July 7. A body oE three hundred police tried to protect the non-Unionists at Pittsburg, bat the strikers opened fire on them with revolvers, The police replied with volleys from their Winchester rifles.

The strikers then hastily erected a fort of steel bars, ■ and garrisoned it with a thousand men.

They also procured cannon, with which fire was opened on the police, who tried to land from the river, After a brisk fight the police were ultimately obliged to surrender, and were then allowed to depart. Thirty-eight men were killed, but the loss was mostly on the side of the strikers, only a few policemen being included,

Hundreds of strikers are still concealed, ready to shoot the police if they attempt to land again, The police came into collision with the strikers at Carnegie's homestead, in Pennsylvania, Five persons were killed and many wounded. The police at Pittsburg on finding themselves outmatched displayed a flag of truce, which was riddled with bullets. They afterwards accepted an escort from the strikers, but were compelled to salute the union banner.

The mob attaoked and injured more than 100 persons. The cause of the strike was a sweeping reduction of wages by, a company who flouted the Union.

An oil tank waa fired during the , fight at Pittsbnrg by the strikers, many of whom were drowned in trying to escape, The Senate has appointed a committee to investigate the circumstances of the conflict.