THE PENNSYLVANIA STRIKE.
Twenty thousand strikers at the coke works in Pennsylvania armed themselves with guns and clubs and ejected the non-unionists from the vicinity of the works. The strikers are parading the street in a threatening manner, and the whole district is in a state of terrorism. Two non-unionists have been killed by strikers. The sheriff's troops killed 17 of the rioters at the coke-works in Pennsylvania. , The strikers are besieging Frick's and M 'Lure's coke-works in Pennsylvania. One of the managers, Mr Paddock, was killed and his body burnt in the oven. The president and secretary of the Miners' Association have been arrested in connection with fche murder of Mr Paddock. South Carolina is quieting down, and fche proclamation declaring martial law has been removed. The citizens are arming in eyery town within the coke region. There are, however, signs of the strikers yielding. One hundred and'flffcy of the rioters in Pennsylvania have been arrested on charges of riot and murder. r ♦
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Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1029, 13 April 1894, Page 6
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164THE PENNSYLVANIA STRIKE. Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1029, 13 April 1894, Page 6
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