STRIKERS' FATE,

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18030, 19 January 1923, Page 7

STRIKERS' FATE,

COMMUNITY ACTION.

LEAVING A TOWN.

APPEAL TO GOVERNOR!

By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. (Received 11 p.in.) 'NEW YORK, Jan. 17. The Governor of Arkansas has ordered a company of troops to restore order at Harrison (Arkansas), but tho sheriff telegraphed asking for the recall of the soldiers, declaring that he was able to restore order. Meanwhile, two strikers were quickly convicted of arson, and were sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment. They confessed to the burning of two railroad bridges. Tho sheriff spirited them away to another town.

A so-called Citizens’ Committee examined the strikers end their friends. The daughter of an alleged strike sympathiser fired upon the crowd which was leading her father to this Court, but no one was injured. She was apprehended. Many strikers left the town in fear of their lives. The Mayor'of Harrison, who supplied a bond for the striker charged with sabotage, was threatened with a whipping, and ordered to resign, but he refused. Strikers have appealed to the Governor for protection, declaring that their lives are not safe. The State Senate approved of a resolution for ordinary investigation. The Citizens’ Committee has asked the Federal Court to call a special sitting of the grand jury to investigate sabotage.—A. and N.Z. Cable.