CHICAGO PACKERS
STRIKE ASSUMING SERIOUS
ASPECT
RIOTING ENDS FATALLY.
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(Received December 9, 9.30 a.m.)
OHIOAGjp, Bth December. The strike of workers in the meatpacking plants, who refused to agree tosa reduction in wages, assumed serious aspects when a large mob of men, women, and children rioted. Police and many other persons were injured. 1 The strike, which union officials estimate affects 20,000 workers throughout the country, notably in Chicago and Kansas City, is being attended by serious disturbances in the latter cities. The Governor of Kansas threatened to call out the military.
The strikers attacked an elevated train, injuring forty people, half of whom are dangerously hurt. The known casualties in last night's rioting are one dead, two dying, nine dangerously wonnded, and fifty injured.
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 139, 9 December 1921, Page 7
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133CHICAGO PACKERS Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 139, 9 December 1921, Page 7
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