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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVI, Issue 14858, 30 September 1912, Page 5

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;! *> I STRIKE IN COTTON MILL. \ OVER PERSONAL GRIEVANCE. Press Association—Bv Tel.—Copy.-ight LONDON, Sept, 27. Tho cardroom workers at an Oldham mill have given notico that they will striko owing to tho owners' refusal to | compensate a girl who was injured in cleaning moving machinery in spite of orders to tho contrary. Tho owners threaten an action for damages against individual strikers and the union. AMERICAN STRIKE ENGINEERS. NEW YORK, Sept. 27. Four thousand textile workers at Lawrence, Massachusetts, have again struck at the instance of tho Industrial Workers of the World. Tho , total number idlo. is now 12.000. I Tho trial at Lawrence of two men | charged with implication in the strike | murder early this year is pending, and i is causing great unrest. j STRIKERS SHOT DOWN. NEW YORK, Sept. 28. j At Augusta, Georgia, after serious 1 rioting in which two men wcro killed. I martial law was proclaimed. ' A striko 1 led to the disorders and attacks on j street railwny cars. The soldiers ! established a dead line, forbidding , striker? to cross it, in consequence .of a report that the electric power '■ works were in danger of being dynamited. A number of strikers crossed the line, and the <=oldiers riddl'd them 1 with bullets. is pr r eat excite- ' ment over the affair. I RAILWAY STRIKE IN SPAIN. j _ MADRID. Sept. 25. I A strike has declared on • all ' r-.ilv.-avs. The strike's are rioiing at j Rnreelona. A _ train was derailed- ; three persons killed and :i number In—- ! jurcd.