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This date the following tragic events took place in the U.S.A
ARIZONA 1915-1917
Chicano miners in the Clifton-Morenci area of Arizona went on strike in 1915. Then miners from all over the state,organized by the IWW, struck in 1917. This was during WWI, a huge mob of vigilantes then rounded up about 1,200 strikers as "enemy aliens " .
They forced them to walk to bisbee, and loaded them on cattle cars.
they took the strikers across the state line and abandoned them in a New
Mexico desert, near the Mexican border, without food or water for days
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