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United States Vs. Bernardino Manabat, Et Al. 042 Phil 569

UNITED STATES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. BERNARDINO MANABAT and DOMINGO SIMEON, defendants. DOMINGO SIMEON, appellant.

G.R. No. 16717 | 1921-12-22

D E C I S I O N


OSTRAND, J .:

On May 23, 1919, the laborers in the car house, machine shop, power plant, and transportation departments of the Manila Electric Railroad and Light Company, a corporation operating the Manila street car system, declared a strike against that corporation. The strikers numbered nearly five hundred and all were members of a society for mutual support called "Nagsumakit" which consisted exclusively of employees of said corporation, and of which one Pedro Angeles was president. In the course of the strike several acts of violence were committed by the strikers culminating on June 20th at about 4:30 p. m., in the...