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The following section is on a 1922 Carmen strike with people running around wearing guns and holsters. There was
no union on the K&I until 1919. This strike lasted three months with the K&I continuing operating. I found these
negatives in a dusty long forgotten envelope and found out the lady wearing the gun and holster on the steps of the K&I old mansion headquarters was none other than the WIFE of President W.S. Campbell. This was in 1922 and in 1926 she bore a daughter, and then died in 1929 during a flu epidemic when the daughter was only three years old. Her daughter is now Agnes (Campbell) Johnson and the wife of a doctor in Scottsdale, Arizona. She had never seen these photos of her mother and took great pleasure in showing her eight grand children photos of their "Pistol Packing Great Grand Mother"
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There is one other interesting thing I found in K&I history. When the K&I issued in 1911 a lot of fifty year "Gold
Bonds" that would mature in 1961 that had financed the building of the double track second (and present day) bridge, a group of investors in England sued the K&I in the 1960's take up of these bonds. They said their bonds said redeemable in Gold at the 1960's price of Gold which would have been a much greater amount of money. However the
courts ruled against them because England had went OFF the Gold standard in 1931 and the currency rate governed
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