WORK AND WAGES
THE WELSH MINERS. RIOTOUS SCENES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 3. Mr W. Abraham, M.P., and Mr Tom Richards, M.P., appealed to the .South Wales miners not to agree to a general stoppage. They point out that such sudden and unprepared action would be certain to end in disaster. The funds of the Federation are already depleted by costly litigation and stoppages, and the Minors' Federation of Great Britain would not sanction a general stoppige. Riotous scenes occuired in Aberdaro Valley. The Poyell-Diifiryn strikers attacked a non-unionists' train, stoning and breaking the windows. 'iTie non-unionists fled, but were pursued, several of them being stripped naked. STRIKE ENDS IN STARVATION. SYDNKY, November 4. (Received November 4, at 9 a.m.) The wire-mattress makers at Rutherford's (Newcastle) who went out on .-trike four weeks ago have resumed work in ojder to escape starvation. GARMENT-MAKERS' STRIKE. FURTHER RIOTS. VANCOUVER, November 3. (Received November 4, at 9 a.m.) Sixty armed policemen charged thousands of garment workers who were rioting in Chicago. 'The mob attacked a factory, one policeman 'being stabbed and u'ifteen rioters seriously wounded. There were a score of arrests, including somo women. A tewing machino was dragged) into the street fiom the factory and smashed.
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Evening Star, Issue 14514, 4 November 1910, Page 6
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205WORK AND WAGES Evening Star, Issue 14514, 4 November 1910, Page 6
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