AMERICAN MINING TROUBLES.
POLICE AND MINERS IN CONFLICT
BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. NEW YORK, May 11. Striking miners at Scranton, Pennsylvania, broke' a police cordon which was surrounding the strike-breakers, and mishandled many of the latter. They threw bricks and used clubs. A fierce melee resulted for half an hour. Several strikers were fatally hurt. The troops finally came to the policemen's rescue.
Women took a prominent part in the attacks on the police, and six were arrested.
The disturbances were chiefly fomented by the foreign element.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 13 May 1912, Page 5
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86AMERICAN MINING TROUBLES. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 13 May 1912, Page 5
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