STRIKE RIOTS IN AMERICA.
RIFLES USED FREELY. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per. Press : Association.) Received May !), at 1.45 p.m. • ; New York, May 8. At Pottsville, Pennsylvania, duriug a strike disturbance; 'the police' tired on the mob numbering 3000. Three men were fatally shot and numbers of others injured, including several police. A woman onlooker was injured in the arm by a bullet. The riot started when, the colliery superintendent sought to take, two strike-breakers in an automobile to work. At San Diego members of the Industrial AYorkers of the World, a Socialist order that has been fomenting industrial disturbances along the Pacific coast, clashed with the police. Armed citizens turned out when the riot call sounded, and many industrial workers were shot' in the melee. Two policemen were'kill-,: ed and several injured.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11629, 10 May 1912, Page 4
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