NO CIGARETTES, NO COAL! CONVICT MINERS ISSUE ULTIMATUM.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, June 21. News from Lansing. Kansas, states that 328 inmates of the Kansas 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. 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 the darkness, have retained with them fourteen guards and mine officials, and sent a message over the mine telephone: “No cigarettes; no coal.” They have declined to parley and are maintaining silence. The reasons against issuing the cigarettes are that they make easy the smuggling of narcotics to prisoners and add to the risk of fire.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18189, 23 June 1927, Page 15
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