LABOUR RIOTS IN AUSTRALIA.
miners oj. steikis attack Labourers.
THE POLICE POWERLESS.
FORCE OF ARTILLERY CALLED
OUT.
SrcNsy, this day, A serious riot, which at one timfc assumed a most alarming aspect, is reported to have taken place between the miners on strike in Newcastle district and a number of labourers who had started work. '
The labourers at work in the New LambtOh mine were mobbed by about a thousand of the men on strike-^-the latter being armed with sticks. The police attempted to protect the labourers from the fury of their assailants, but proved quite unable to do so.
Violence was only prevented by the surrender of the labourers, who undertook to refrain from working while the strike was pending.
A force of the Permanent Artillery, armed with a Nordenfeldt gun, and under the comnuand of Col. Spalding, was meanwhile despatched to the scene of disturbance,.but the rioters had dispersed btf 01 c the force arrived.
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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 221, 19 September 1888, Page 5
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