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Meanwhile Cuban cavalry and infantry were surrounding the town. The insurrectos backed their little freight train into the railway tunnel under the old Spanish fortress of Vigia and held the Federals at bay for two more days...
...cold truth, the Federal troops rushed the mouth of the railway tunnel the next morning. It was deserted. The Gibara rebels had slipped through the swamps during the night but they left behind them almost all their new landed arms: 70 machine guns, 2,500 rifles, 2,500,000 rounds of ammunition. Among the Federals one officer and five men were killed, eight wounded. There were seven known rebels dead, 16 wounded...
Fortnight ago some 30 tunnel shovellers whose work had been replaced by machinery were discharged from their $5 jobs, offered work outside at $4. They refused. The 130 other tunnel workers walked out in sympathy. The company replied by stopping all work, making 1,100 others idle. Frank Crowe, superintendent of Six Companies, Inc., blamed the oft-blamed I. W. W. Said he: "We are six months ahead of schedule now and we can afford to refuse concessions which would cost $2,000 daily, or $3,000,000 during the seven years we are allowed to finish the work...
...businesswoman since the age of 15 when she raised money to build the Children's Hospital in Hamilton. Twenty years ago, says her legend, she bearded the directors of the Canadian Northern Railway (forerunner of the present state-owned Canadian National) and persuaded them to dig a tunnel under Montreal's Mount Royal, then persuaded Hamilton realtors to develop the area made available by the new line...
...Lewis embezzlement was the signal for an attack by the Ford Motor Company on Mayor Frank Murphy who had refused to use his influence in setting aside a city tax levy on a $2,000,000 Ford tunnel. The chief of the Ford Motor Company police department was chosen as the Ford spokesman. He hurled charges wild and vague, finally narrowing them down to 329 specific cases of "apparent fraud" in which Ford workmen accepted city welfare. To date less than 100 of these cases have been shown to be fraudulent-100 cases...