INDUSTRIAL STRIFE IN AMERICA.
MANY PEOPLE SHOT.
CLASHES WITH THE POLICE
New York, May 8
At Pottsvillo, Pennsylvania, during strike disturbances, tho police fired on a mob numbering 3000.
Three men were fatally shot and numbers of others were injured, including several police.
A woman onlooker was injured in tho arm by a bullet.
A riot started when a colliery superintendent sought to take two strike breakers in an automobile to work.
At San Diego members of the Industrial Workers of the World Socialist Order, who have been fomenting industrial disturbances along the Pacific coast, clashed with the police.
Armed citizens turned out when the riot call was sounded.
Many industrial workers were shot in the melee, and two policemen were killed and several injured.
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Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13413, 10 May 1912, Page 5
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125INDUSTRIAL STRIFE IN AMERICA. Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13413, 10 May 1912, Page 5
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