SERIOUS RIOT
IN EAST END OF \ LONDON
DISAPPOINTED SEEKERS OF, WORK . TIMBER YARD SET ON FIRE. (UNITBB PRESS ASSOCIATIONi-r-COPYAIGRT.) (AUSTRALIAN - NCW ZBAtAND CAKLS ASSOCIATION.) / (Received August 9, 9 a.m.) LONDON,-Bth August. Serious riots took place at a. big timber-yard hi East London where five thousand unemployed, many of whom waited all night, came in response to an advertisement for fifty ' hands. They were so angered at their failure to. se-' cure work that they broke the gates and raided the offices.
' Police and mounted' men were summoned from the surrounding stations until they were five • hundred strong. They forced the crowd out of the gates, but some hours after the riot was quelled, the yard became on lire, and stocks worth a million sterling were, threatened with total destruction. The yard, which *tK>ver« twenty-one acres waa. a blazing inferno.
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 34, 9 August 1921, Page 7
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