CLASH AT CLIPSTONE
STRIKERS SCUFFLE WITH POLIOS
SEVERAL INJUBED.
(Reuter'i Telegram.)
LONDON, 24th August.
There was a serious clash between the police and strikers at Clipstone Colliery, near Mansfield. A crowd armed with sticks gathered on a road along which the miners who are.working pass. A body of golice demanded the sticks, and a scuffle ensued. Several miners were wounded by- batons.
In another place in the same district two policemen assisting a man through a hostile crowd were knocked down «2d beaten. Three miners were arrested near Chesterfield, where, a motor-bus containing police, was stoned.
Hundreds of policemen are patrolling the road leading to the Mansfield pita, which are deserted by almost all the men who worked at the week-end.
Miners' officials in Midlothian deny; that there has been any breakaway.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 49, 26 August 1926, Page 9
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