Argo III Incident of 1898

The Argo III Incident of 1898 was the peaceful illegal occupation of an extraction platform in the Meroa System by contract miners to protest working conditions.
The miners demanded regular inspections and replacement of safety equipment, contract delivery rates with better pay, and a legitimate voice in the decrees from Management.
The miners occupied the platform for a month before the Meroan Citizen Protection Force moved in to quell the occupation after being ordered to "make an example" of the miners by System President Adenauer Kellogg.
Leopold McCleskey, husband of Belinda McCleskey and uncle of Gottfried McAnally, was one of the miners. He and a dozen other men and women died when the MCPF moved in on the platform. ()
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