LABOUR TROUBLES IN AMERICA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8961, 19 August 1892, Page 5

LABOUR TROUBLES IN AMERICA.

EMPLOYMENT OF CONVICTS.

CONFLICT WITH THE TROOPS.

SEVERAL PERSONS KILLED. , RAILWAYS BEING DESTROYED. Prut Auoeiation. —Electric TitiearavK—Covvrie^S. New York, August 17. An attempt made by miners in Nashville to release the convicts was defeated. Many persons were wounded in the encounter. Troops are hastening to the scene to assist in preserving order. ; ' ' ' y - !; ; Seven hundred miners at Olive Springs demanded that convicts should be released. ! " A body of twenty»five soldiers barricaded themselves within the convicts' enclosure, and, firing low on the miners, completely routed them, killing five and wounding a large number. :1 «r The miners intend to make another attack on the convicts, and have destroyed the railway line leading to the town in order to "prevent reinforcements of soldiers being sent. ' : The Governor of the State is mediating in the dispute with regard to the employment of convict labour. Traffic is being resumed on the Lehigh section under the protection of troops. The switchmen on the New York Central line have struck work, which, with the Lehigh strike, ties up an enormous amount of traffic. The damage already caused by the railway riots at Buffalo is estimated at £50,000. Washington, August 17. The miners at Nashville, Tennessee^ made a second attack upon the prison, and after a desperate fight defeated tho warders, and released two-hundred convicts. Twelve persons were killed and twenty wounded in the affray. Troops are being massed, and the whole district is in a state of turmoil. The miners are blowing up railways with dynamite to prevent the arrival of the soldiers. The strikers at Buffalo were charged and dispensed by the troops. It is feared that the drivers and stokers on the New York Central Lint will also strike.