EXCITING SCENES.
STRIKERS AT SOUTHAMPTON.
ATTEMPT TO HOLD UP TRAIN. CARRYING CREWS FOR SHIPS. BY GAB BE—PRESw ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT. (Received Sept. 5, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 4. There were exciting scenes at Southampton, when strikers, accompanied by their womenfolk, attempted to hold) up a train bringing hundreds of Cardiff men to complete the crew of a Union Castle liner. Strikers crowded the railway line, refusing to budge, held up a shunting engine, and then a goods train. A large force of police vigorously scattered, the angry crowd, allowing- 'the Cardiff train to pass to the docks. The police foiled an attempt to force the gates. Strikers are now concentrating to prevent the Berengaria sailing on the sth. —Sydney Sun Cables.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 5 September 1925, Page 9
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