Trying to tip* §ack of,<malt Into *'; ' vat;, of boiling beer, a stonemason, nairted Herbert Digger, at Worcester, overbalanced) and railing into tl»u /.. liquid was scaMed> to'diath. > ./ . I A pitched battle between 100 Itah'am ; ' and ftmr tioiib*' that numberof Poki " who were searching for work took plaeft- ; '■' at Linden; New 1 Jersey, ; and result©* -/ : in at leaW; ; 'Werify V! 6amialti«V' ! -piir''f' /: weeks rival armies of laborers hav* ' ! beon camping outside the huge refinejw■;''l which the Standard Oil Company '/fij •' greeting. ~As the^ltalians';were ipply-]'". j ing for work the Poles, farcied 'poJw/ap(, ' them in military fashion four abrea*i j The Italian women immediately!jdr*w \revolvers from ; under, their shawls--,, for the men, ©wing visitations, ho longer, carry ; nrearn*— and! handed the weapons to their hut' 7 |ban<gs. Indiscriminate firing began, ■ and finally the Italians charged tb* | Poles and broke their formation. Pot . three-quarters of an hour the rival fa* tions fought with knives and pistola. Finally the police arrived, read tha \ Riot Act in two languagesV and quelW * \ the disturbance.
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 55, 15 June 1908, Page 1
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