STRIKERS CAPITULATE.
ILLINOIS BACK TO NORMAL. ONE ACT OF VIOLENCE. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. CHICAGO, Feb. 6. A message from Pekin, Illinois, states that as the result of the decision of the Association of Commerce to open places of business in resistance to the striking unionists, the chief Laboiur leader, Kinsella, capitulated and declared the general strike ended. One act of violence marred the otherwise peaceful and brief, though completely effective, cessation erf activity in the town, namely, the shooting by an unknown assailant of tiie president of a taxicab company whose cabs were alleged to have been employed in conveying food.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19805, 8 February 1936, Page 7
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104STRIKERS CAPITULATE. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19805, 8 February 1936, Page 7
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