TERRIFIED STRIKERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18765, 19 January 1923, Page 5

TERRIFIED STRIKERS

MILITARY PROTECTION SOUGHT. INVESTIGATION ORDERED AT HARRISON. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, January 17. (Received Jan. 18, at 8.15 p.m.) The Governor of Arkansas ordered a company of troops to restore order at Harrison, but the sheriff telegraphed asking for the recall of the soldiers, declaring that he was able to restore order. Meanwhile two strikers, who were quickly convicted of arson, were sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment. ' They confessed to burning two railroad bridges. The sheriff spirited them away. In another town a so-called Citizens’ Committee examined the strikers and their friends. The daughter of an alleged strike sympathiser fired upon a crowd, which was leading her father to the court, but no one was injured. She was apprehended. Many of the strikers have left the town, in fear of their-lives. The Mayor of Harrison, who supplied bond for the striker who was charged with sabotage, was threatened with a whipping and was ordered to resign, but he refused. The strikers have appealed to the Governor for protection, declaring that their lives are not safe. The State Senate approved of a resolution ordering an investigation of the Citizens’ Committee, and has asked the Federal Court to call a special sitting of the Grand Jurv to investigate the alleged sabotage.—A. and N.Z. Cable. [At Harrison, angered by recent sabotage in connection with the local railway strike, a mob of citizens descended on the home of a striker named M'Gregor, who fled amid a hail of bullets. Later M‘Gregor’s body was found hanging to a trestle. The mob seized another man who supplied bail for strikers charged with sabotage, and whipped him.]