RIOTING.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1819, 15 June 1912, Page 4

RIOTING.

NAVVIES 'ATTACKED BY WO-

MEN

SPECIAL TO SYDNEY SUN,

New York, June 5. A lively encounter occurred to-day at Newark, New Jersey, where a strike at a' railway labourers' camp is now in progress.

Resenting the introduction of ■strike breakers, the .wives of the navvies vigorously assailed the non-uu-ionists, .and'tihe rioting eventually became* so serious that the police were I compelled to fire on the participants.

Two persons, a woman and a boy, were killed, and tivo otihers were, seriously wounded.

I Tlie women kep'c pelting the striksI breakers with stones until Uie police j seized 'the leader, -whose companions j then attenipto dto effect a rescue.

Oner of the* policemen that liad had the woman in custody was seriously injured through being stabbed.