FIERCE STRIKE RIOTS.
UNIONISTS ATTACKED.
THEIR BUILDING WRECKED.
MAYOR THROWN OUT OF WINDOW
By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright. (Received June 15, 8.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 14.
Serious rioting has occurred at Butte, Montana, as the outcome of labour troubles.
Unionists who were; parading the streets were attacked by members of the organisation called the Industrial Workers of the World, who used stones and other missiles. The attaekers stormed and wrecked the Union Hall, throwing the furniture "and pianos out of the Windows.
-The..Mayor appealed.fov, order from the mob, but they threw-him out of the second-storey window.
-A crowd " of- ten thousand people watched the disturbances, which were only quelled when the rioters thought the troops were coming.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 110, 15 June 1914, Page 7
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