Labor Conflict in America.
OPEN BATTLE : 88 KILLED. (pee peess association.) . WASHINGTON, July 7. A body of three hundred police tried to protect tbe non-unionists at Pittaburg, but the strikers opened fire on them with revolvers. Tbe police replied with volleys from their Winchester rifles. The strikers then hastily erected a fort of steel bars* and garrisoned it with a thousand men. They also procured oannon, with wbiob a fire wbb opened on the police, who tried to land from the river. After a brisk fire, tbe police were ultimately obliged to surrender, and were then allowed to depart. Thirty- eight men were killed, but tbe loss was mostly on tbe side of tbe strikers, only a few policemen being inolnded. Hundreds of Btrikers are atill concealed ready to shoot the police ii they attempt to land again. Tbe police came into collision with strikers at Carnegie's Homeßtead, in Pennsylvania. Five perbods were killed, and many wounded.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 3168, 8 July 1892, Page 3
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