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Riots along the Canal
[Buffalo Gazette, November 20, 1843]
Within these few days past, there has been some serious trouble among the Irish laborers, along the Welland canal. We are not in possession of particulars, but have learned incidentally, that a fracas occurred lately, between some Corkonians and Connaught men, in which several were so badly beaten, that one of them died soon after, and was buried here; and another is not expected to survive. There are a great many laborers out of employ just now—they having quit work, in consequence of the Contractors reducing their wages to half a dollar per day, and also, by the stopping of the work on the locks.
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