Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1919 — Two Queer Strikes. [ARTICLE]

Two Queer Strikes.

A one-man . strike occurrtjd in an Australian city. A prisoner in the town Jail, a tailor by trade, refused to work in the tailor’s shop on the plea that It would be contrary to his principles as a trade unionist, “unfair competition with his brother unionists outside." as he put It. He sent a letter to the tailors’ union, but as they took no notice he was condemned to three days’ .solitary confinement, during which he “continues! the strike.’ There was a strike of paupers once In a country poorhouse. They struck for new potatoes! They expected greens for dinner and. as there were none, they refused to eat old spuds’ They eve‘n declined to enter the dining room. The giiardlans prescribed a bread and water diet, with the result that at the end of 24 hours the inmates were ready for potatoes —new or old.