PRISONERS' STRIKE
CIGARETTES DEMANDED REFUSAL TO LEAVE MINE (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, June 21. News from Lansing, Kansas, states that 328 inmates of the Kansas State penitentiary' have begun an unusual strike to obtain cigarettes, the use' of winch was once barred throughout, the State by law. Now they can be legally soldand consumed, due to tho repeal of the statute. The prisoners,-who are workers in the coal mines, after descending today, declined to re-ascend unless the warden promised them cigarettes. ' The strikers, who are foodless and in darkness, have retained with them 14 guards and mine officials, and sent a message over the mine telephone, "No cigarettes, no coal." They have declined to parley, and are maintaining silence. "The reason against the issuing of cigarettes are that they make easy the smuggling of narcotics to prisoners and add to the risk of fire..
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16374, 23 June 1927, Page 7
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