HODGE REVOLTS
BRITISH AGRICULTURE. STRIKE FOLLOWS DEPRESSION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, March 31. (Received April 2, at 10.55 a.m.) A wide industrial struggle, due to decreased wages and unemployment, threatens Britain. Thousands of agricultural laborers have struck. The 1 Daily Mail ’ states (hat exciting scenes in field ami farmyard mark the strike. Extra police have, been drafted to some agricultural districts. In one case the strikers unharnessed the horses from the carls and allowed the animals to stray. In other places they gathered round the fields where work was proceeding, blowing horns and rattling tins to 'frighten tiie horses. Intimidation is increasing. Farmers are carrying on with the help of old age pensioners and schoolboys.— A. and N.Z. Cable. (Received April 2, at 11.30 a.m ) If the agricultural laborers on strike do not agree In the terms, the Norfolk farmers threaten to close down the cultivation of their farms from seed-time until harvest, reducing cultivation by one-third. They will put the land down to corn, lotting the root crops go.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18239, 2 April 1923, Page 6
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173HODGE REVOLTS Evening Star, Issue 18239, 2 April 1923, Page 6
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