CANADIAN COAL RIOTS

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3372, 1 October 1931, Page 5

CANADIAN COAL RIOTS

TOWN RESEMBLES BATTLEFIELD. HOSPITAL FILLED WITH WOUNDED. (Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received 9.10 a.m.) Vancouver, September 30. A message from Eastern Saskatchewan states: With machine guns posted at strategic points, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and sentinels are patrolling the area around a Single Hospital filled with the wounded. Two of the dead strikers are in the morgue awaiting an inquest. ~ , J The town to-day resembles a battlefield. Rumours of threatened reprisals by the miners in the outside centres and of their marching on the town resulted in fifty mounted police reinforcements with tear bombs arriving from Regina. . All train passengers are being questioned. Three international strike leaders have fled from the district.

The Premier, Mr. Anderson, refuses to declare martial law.

(A message received yesterday from Estevan, a coalmining town in Saskatchewan, says three miners were killed and about 20 other persons injured, including six Royal Canadian Mounted Police and two women, as the result of a clash between striking miners and the police on Tuesday afternoon. The battle was the culmination of weeks of bitterness, arising out of a strike at the coalmines at Bienfiat and Taylortown, near Estevan.)