The state militia and the Coal and…
May 1875 CE
Union leaders are "excoriated by the press", and are "denounced from altar and pulpit".
On May 12, John Siney, the union leader who had addressed miners at the Avondale disaster, and who had favored arbitration an opposed the strike, is arrested at a mass meeting called to protest the importation of strike breakers.
An organizer for the miners' national association by the name of "Xingo Parkes" is also arrested, along with twenty-six other union officials, all on conspiracy charges.
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