STRIKING COLLIERS.
DYNAMITE USED,
TROUBLE IN ENGLAND AND CANADA (By Tolccraph-Prcsa Aasoclation.-Copyrislit.)
Ottayva, July 9. The Mayor of Giaoe Bay, Capo Breton, Nova Scotia, wnoro a thousand strikers attacked workers in tho coal-mines who refused to join them, has protested against tho summoning of troops, alleging that tho local police aro adequate. Ho offered to swear in five hundred ppecial constables to preserve order. t Prior to tho arrival of the troops, who mimbor 1500, the strikers blew up a railway truck with dynamite, desfcrojod other property, and poured shots into buildings.
ENGLISH STRIKERS DO DAMAGE TO v PROPERTY.
COLLISIONS WITH POLICE. , London, July 9. Owing to friction over the working of tho Eight Houts Act, mobs of men and boys are marching through tho North Staffordshire colliery towns, breaking down, fences and walls, ( i Frequent oonflieta have occurred with tho police.
The trouble was due to the pit boys wantbig a special hmoh time, which was impossible without a general stoppage of work.
There are fifteen thousand strikers in tho Sheffield district.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 557, 12 July 1909, Page 5
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