AMERICAN STRIKES.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14475, 2 October 1912, Page 10

AMERICAN STRIKES.

RIOTING AT LAWRENCE. BEVERAL FATALLY INJURED. NEW YORK, September 30. rhere has been renewed rioting at __awrence, Massachusetts. Two thousand strikers came into violent conflict with tho police, and scores of persons wero taken to the hospital, several bein<_. fatally wounded. A meeting called to protest against the trial of tho labour leaders resulted in tho first clash, and after that street fighting was continuous. Hundreds of arrests have been made. Fifteen thousand additional workers aro now idle.

Two men who have been prominent in union affairs in Massachusetts, America, for years, and who helped to secure for the textile workers 15,(K)0,000 dollars a year moro wages, are in danger of losing their lives by the medium of tho electric chair (says tho Sydney "'Sun"). Tl'pv are Ettor and Giovannitti, who were loading figures in the Lawrenco textile workers' strike last January. The State claims that these men aro responsible for the death of Annie La Pizza, one of the strikers killed by a policeman named Benoit during a street riot, and they are now charged with being accessories beforo tho fact. A defence committee has been formed on their behalf, and in a circular sent to the Brisbane District Council of the Australian Labour Federation, and forwarded on in turn to the Sydney Labour Council, it is stated that tho most powerful financial interests in America are conspiring with the authorities of Massachusetts to try to send these men to the eloctric chair.