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STRIKE IN AMERICAN TOWN. (United Press Association—Copyright.) NEW YORK, February 6. After the decision of the Association of Commerce to open places of business in resistance to the union, the cine Labour leader capitulated and declared the Pekin general strike at Pekin (Illinois) ended. One act of violence marred an otherwise peaceful and brief, though completely effective, cessation of activity in the city—namely, "the shooting by an unknown person of the president of a taxi-cab company, whose cars had allegedly been used to convey food.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 100, 8 February 1936, Page 6
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