CLYDESIDE EVICTIONS.
NEW TURN IN RENT STRIKE. “PAY OR QUIT.” London,. Nov. 14. The Clydeside rent strike has taken a complicated turn; A sheriff, by a surprise raid in the absence of the tenants’ scouts on Wednesday, carried out seven evictions. Sympathisers during the night restored six occupants with the whole of- their belongings. The owners of the premises have now begun proceedings for. house-breaking. Meanwhile the tenants have organised a brigade of cyclist scouts to frustrate further attempts at evictions. Tho “Daily Herald’s” Glasgow correspondent reports that the landlords are angry over the evictions and intend to secure further evictions. Ona landlord is represented as saying:— “The Government is behind us; people must pay or quit.” '’The rent tribunal, instituted through the efforts of Mr David Kirkwood, M.P.. broke down as the result of the landlords’ insistence upon post-war rents, which the tenants maintain cannot ob paid out of current wages. A special meeting of the City Council has been summoned for to-day. —(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 288, 15 November 1924, Page 5
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