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‘NO CIGARETTES, NO COAL’

MINING PRISONERS’ STRIKE REFUSAL TO LEAVE THE PIT OFFICIALS HELD IN LIME By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received June 22, 7.15 p.m. New York, June 21. News from Lansing, Kansas, states that 328 inmates of the Kansasa State penitentiary have begun an unusual strike to obtain cigarettes, the use of which was once barred throughout, the State by law. Now they can be legally sold and consumed, due to the repeal of the statute. The prisoners, who are workers in the coal mines, after descending to-day, 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 have sent a message over the mine telephone: “No cigarettes, no coal.” They have declined to parley and are maintaining -silence. The reasons against issuing cigarettes are that they make easy the smuggling of narcotics to the prisoners and add to the risk of fire.

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Taranaki Daily News, 23 June 1927, Page 9

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‘NO CIGARETTES, NO COAL’ Taranaki Daily News, 23 June 1927, Page 9

‘NO CIGARETTES, NO COAL’ Taranaki Daily News, 23 June 1927, Page 9

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