LABOUR TROUBLES.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8583, 9 September 1893, Page 7

LABOUR TROUBLES.

CONTINUED RIOTING IN YORKSHIRE. THE MOB CHARGED. SEVERAL RIOTERS KILLED. Fihi AMoeUUon—Electric Tolegnpb—Copjngßi. London, September 7. Much rioting has taken place in Leeds and district. Eight thousand colliers, many of them armed with weapons, brutally hunted off the freemen and compelled the owners to discontinue employing them. The police were unable to cope with the rioters. The military maintained order in Derbyshire, and much violence was displayed in the Sheffield and Nottingham districts. Troops have reached Barnsley. September 8. The police,at Dewsbury were stoned and driven back. Afterwards they armed themselves with cutlasses, charged, and repeatedly t pursued the rioters for miles. Safes were looted, and the interior of the Manager's house utterly wrecked. Wine cellars were pillaged, and also the housss of free labourers, women and children being driven out of them. Fifty trucks were thrown down the shaft of a-> pit* -at Sheffield. The rioters stormed and burned a coal shed at the Manchester and Sheffield railway. Ten thousand men assembled in the vicinity of Pontefract, burned timber yards and pit shafting, and looted shops. Rioting went on for seven hours till a Magistrate was found, who read the liioc Act. The troops then fired on the mob, wounding five and killing one, and afterwards charged with the bayonet. A thousand policemen will be sent from London to Efewsbury and Ponte* fract.