(Source: The Militant, February 16, 2015)
MONTREAL — Railroad bosses, the cops and Canada’s courts are pushing to frame up and punish Tom Harding, an engineer for the now-bankrupt Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway, as the person responsible for 47 deaths in the fiery train explosion July 6, 2013, in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. Under special dispensation from the federal government, the rail bosses were running the train, with 72 cars containing more than 2 million gallons of highly volatile crude oil, with only an engineer as crew.
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