LABOUR TROUBLES.
(Ny KI.KCTRIO TELKC.HAVH. —COPYRIGHT.) New Youu, July IS. The troops have arrested 5000 miners in Idilho, ami a number of the citizens, whoso sympathies are known to be with the strikers, have also been placed in custody. Fifteen hundred strikors, well-armed, arc entrenched in the mountains, but the troops are starving them out by preventing supplies reaching them. The meu employed on the railway lines converging on Pittsburg have refused to handle the materials ini tended for Carnegie's mills.
Mr Carnegie was hanged in effigy at Little Rock. Washington, July 19. The leaders of the Idaho strikers are making their escape. Mr Carnegie's men have refused to resume work with non-unionists. The strike has already cost a million dollars. The leaders of the strike will be charged with murder. Sydney, July 21. There is a general feeling that the mine-owners of Broken Hill will employ free labour at the end of the month.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3123, 21 July 1892, Page 2
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155LABOUR TROUBLES. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3123, 21 July 1892, Page 2
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