CONVICTS STRIKE.
FOR CIGARETTES. Over 300 Stay Down Mine. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received June 22 at 7.15 p.m.) NEW YORK. June 21. News from Lansing, in Kansas State, states that 328 inmates of- the Kansas State Penitentiary have begun an unusual strike to obtain cigarettes, th( use of which was once barred throughout the State by Law. Now they can be legally sold and consumed, this being due to the repeal of the Statute. The striking prisoners, who are workers in coal mines, after descending today declined to reascend unless the Warden promised them cigarettes. Tl.‘ strikers are foodless and in darkness. They have retained with them 14 guards and mine officials, and have sent the following message over the mine telephone:—“No cigarettes, no coal! The men have declined to parley, and they are maintaining silence. Reasons against issuing any cigarettes are that they make easy the smuggling of narcotics to prisoners, and add to the risk of fire.
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Grey River Argus, 23 June 1927, Page 5
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