STRIKE RIOTS.
MEN .SHOT DOWN. BY POLICE. NEW YORK, May 15. Conflicts between mobs of strikers and the police have taken place at Sacranto, Pennsylvania. Foreign " miners, with wild outcries, led a mob of 2000 .men, and broke *■ through "the lines of police guarding tho strike-breakers.' - The m'eri at work wei'c beaten unmercifully. Police "officers' 'drew -their revolvers,, and fired on v the mob, killing two of the rioters. The strikers retaliated by assailing the police with showers of bricks and sto.jes, and bludgeoning them with heavy clubs. The Pennsylvania State troops were called out, and they repeatedly charged the mob before order was restoredi
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12772, 25 May 1912, Page 3 (Supplement)
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105STRIKE RIOTS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12772, 25 May 1912, Page 3 (Supplement)
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