NOVEL STRIKE
CIGARETTES DEMANDED.
PRISONERS REFUSE WORK. REMAIN IN COAL MINE.
BY CABLE—PB ESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT NEW YORK, June 21. News from Lansing, Kansas, states that 328 inmates of the Kansas State penitentiary have begun ia>n unusual strike to obtain cigarettes, the use of which was once barred throughout the State by flaw. Now they can be leg-ally sold 'and consumed, due to the repeal of the statute. _ The [prisoners, who are workers in the coal mines, after descending to-day, declined to re-ascend unless the warden promised them cigarettes. The .strikers, who are foodless and in darkness, have retained with them 14 guards and mine officials, and have* sent a message over the mine telephone: “No cigarettes, no coal.” They have declined to parley and .are maintaining silence. The reasons against issuing cigarettes are that they make easy the smuggling of narcotics to the prisoners and add to the risk of fire.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 23 June 1927, Page 5
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