STRIKERS' TACTICS.
HOLDING UP A FREIGHT TRAIN. NEW YORK, July 27. The ffrft" 'freigty train that has been run oh the Grand Trunk R'ailroaid since tho present strike begariVstafted on Sunday night from South Bend, m Indiana, but had not gone far before it encounter- . ed trouble. The train was brought to a standstill by a number of strikers, who cut it into sections, so many trucks Being ; uncoupled that thS "train 'was stre\ved along the^ track for a considerable distance. The train crew afterwards ran the engine into the sheds, and left it there. Later m the evening a riot broke out, as a result of the shooting of Lo^lf yrfeel, one of the" car repairers employed at the . Grand Trunk workshops. I The railway management intends to ask the Federal authorities to provide troops for the protection of the strikebreakers.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12215, 3 August 1910, Page 4
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