THE COLORADO STRIKE
UPTON SINCLAIR SENTENCED
LOYAL TO HIS PRINCIPLES
NEW YORK, April 30.
(Received May 1, at 1.45 p.m.)
Upton Sinclair, the novelist, and several women refused to pay a small fine that was inflicted, and were sent to gaol for three days for demonstrating outside Mr Rockefeller's office. Sinclair declared he was on the vercro of a physical breakdown, but he would rather go to gaol and there declare a hunger strike than pay the fine. Mourners still purade in front of the Standard Oil Company's buildings.
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Evening Star, Issue 15481, 1 May 1914, Page 6
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89THE COLORADO STRIKE Evening Star, Issue 15481, 1 May 1914, Page 6
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