STRIKERS STORM MINES.
♦ RIOT IN KANSAS TOWN. POLICE PUT TO FLIGHT. A. and N.Z. NEW YORK; Dec. 13. A strike of coalminers at Pittsburg, in Kansas, took an astonishing turn, when the miners and; their women relatives, numbering 2000, marched upon the mines, drove off the sheriff's posse, stopped all approaching vehicles, carrying strikebreakers, detained them, and rioted, throwing cayenne pepper info the eyes of those opposing them.
The authorities were unablo to cope with the leaderless mob, which stormed the mines.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17965, 15 December 1921, Page 7
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82STRIKERS STORM MINES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17965, 15 December 1921, Page 7
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