I.W.W. RIOTS
' ARIZONA TERRORISED LARGE NUMBER DEPORTED TO MEXICO (Eec. July U, 12.5 a.m.) New York, July 13. There have been unprecedented scenes at Bisbee, Arizona. Eleven hundred troublesome I.W.W. agitators were bundled into cattle trucks and deported to Mexico. The men were mostly strangers, and had fomented labour troubles and terrorised the workers for weeks. Tho trouble culminated in Sheriff Wheeler calling at midnight a meeting of citizens, at which he enrolled two iliousand'' deputies, and distributed revolvers, with orders not to shoop except in self-defence. At dawn tho deputies swept the town, searched tho houses, and rounded strangers into a park enclosure, v/here they were kept till entrained. Shots were frequently exchanged. Two I.W.W. men were fatally shot. This is tbe beginning of tbo, campaign to clear the country of German-inspired plots. The I.W.W. have terrorised many Western States. The situation is n'.osf; critical.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3136, 14 July 1917, Page 7
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