LABOR WAR IN ARIZONA
Railroad Graders and Indians Have Much Bloodshed
Fighting breaks out between striking railroad graders and Yaqui Indian strikebreakers along the Nacosari railway line in Arizona, leaving several dead and wounded, prompting the deployment of Mexican troops.
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Daily Inter Mountain · April 11, 1901 · Page 1
1 min readPhoenix, Ariz., April 11.
Phoenix, Ariz., April 11.—Serious trouble continues along the line of the Nacosari railway, where the graders have struck. On the Arizona end of the line several hundred Yaqui Indians have been put to work in place of the strikers, and, besides being heavily armed, are guarded by a strong force of deputies.
At Fronteras, on Monday, an American gambler was killed in a fight with strikers, two Mexicans were mortally wounded and several others seriously hurt in the melee. Four troops of Mexican soldiers have been sent to Fronteras and the contractors have asked for further protection.
It is stated that an attempt by the Americans to organize the graders was the cause of the strike and subsequent rioting.
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