CLYDEBANK RENT STRIKE.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 306, 26 December 1924, Page 5

CLYDEBANK RENT STRIKE.

EVICTIONS AND RIOTS. WORK FOR TKE POLICE. LONDON, December 23. There were lively scenes at Clydebajik to-day owing to a series of evictions. Sixty police escorted the eviction officers. Just as the night patrol of householders left, an alarm was raised by ringing a bell. A nuge crowd attempted to rush the officers, but the police intervened. A Press photographer was kicked, and arrests followed. Subsequently the streets were cleared of threatening crowds, and the eviction officers proceeded to work. The first house was cleared within half an hour. Tenants and their supporters remained in the vicinity. The whole area is seething with excitement, although the presence of many police officers has a restraining effect.— (Reuter.) The Clydebank rent war is based on the belief of tenants that the rents should not exceed those charged before the war. The areas affected contain innumerable dreary rows of cottages, many of which were old at the beginning of last century. Recent photos showed that a brick gutter rune outside these dismal terraces, into which the adjacent population pours its household slops. Owing to the rent war, rents total £200,000, and rates £100,000.