STRIKE RIOTS.
MURDER AND ARSON-
By Telegraph—Pres3 Association—Copyright Received 10.9 p.m., April 80. Ottawa, April 80. Long shoremen strikers at Montreal attacked the non unionists, shooting one. Then they set fire to a Ley-land Line steamer lying at the wharf, endangering the Canadian-Pacific Railway’s grain elevators and burning the cargo. The fire was extinguished. Six arrests were made. Twelve hundred militia are guarding the harbor front and protecting nonunionists. The shipping companies . threaten to import thousands of English lumpers.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 879, 1 May 1903, Page 2
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79STRIKE RIOTS. Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 879, 1 May 1903, Page 2
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