Source: The Mining Journal
Marquette, Mi.
April 30, 1887 Saturday

Discontented Dagos

126 Italians at the F. G. O'Reilly & Co.'s camps near Nestoria
on the Summitt divison of the DSS&A struck Wednesday night and re-
quested the contractors to hand over the earth with a blue ribbon
tied around it. The contractors weren't in that business, however,
and promptly summoned the sheriff of the county, determined to get
rid of the strikers at once and thus avoid any serious trouble.

The sons of sunny Italy were hustled out of the camps by the sher-
iff's forces and escorted to the railway for shipment out of the
country. When they got to the train and realized that they were
about to make the acquaintance of a cold and unfeeling world, with
no other boodle to aid them than a pair of overalls with a number
and tag attached, they weakened and begged to be allowed to return
to camps and go to work again. After some parleying this was
granted and the dusky crowd returned to a man, picked up their
tools and resumed the work of paving the way for the iron horse
through the wilds of Baraga and Ontonagon counties.