LABOUR RIOTS.
IN AMERICAN CITIES. iJ.v Electric Telegraph.— Copyright, (Received May 9, 1.45 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 8. At Pottsville, Pennsylvania, during strike disturbances, the police fired on a mob, numbering three thousand. Three men were fatally shot, and numbers of others injured, including several of the police., A woman onlooker was injured in the arm by a bullet. The riot started when the colliery superintendent sought, to take two strike-breakers in an automobile to work.
At Sari Diego'members of the Industrial Workers of the World, a Socialist order who have been fomenting industrial disturbances along the Pacific Coast, had a clash with, the police. Armed citizens turned out when the riot call sounded, and many of the Industrial Workers wire shot. In the melee two policemen were killed and several injured.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143786, 9 May 1912, Page 3
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132LABOUR RIOTS. Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143786, 9 May 1912, Page 3
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