PRONE ON RAILWAY LINE
FIFTY WOMEN AND CHILDREN FRUIT TRAIN HELD UP. DELAY SECURES IYJUiNCTION. JUDGE ROUSED FROM BED. (United Press Association —by Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 1.45 p.m. to-day. VANCOUVER, Sept. 29. Fifty women and children prone on. the railway tracks won a victory in the co-operators’ war against the independent apple giowers in Okanagan Valley. .. The women prevented a locomotive from moving: six cars of apples long enough for the officials of the co-oper-ative union "to rouse *a judge from his bed and secure an injunction restrainig the shippers and railway from moving the fruit.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 30 September 1933, Page 9
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