POLICE STRIKE A FIASCO
YORKSHIRE MEN RE.)EOT TERMS
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT LONDON, Aug. 4. ihe police strike is regarded as a fiasco.
Speakers at a meeting at Tower Hill held out hopes of Labor support for an extensive sympathetic strike.
Liverjx>oi ra-lway men demand that the National Union support the police strike.
About forty Liverpool shops were aamaged, and jewellers', pawnbrokers', grocers1, drapers', and boot shops were looted and fixtures destroyed The streets Mere strewn with, wreckage. Jj'oxir tanks were stationed °in the streets. Three destroyers also arrived to protect the docks. '
Mr Smith states that the Yorkshire branch meetings have ratified the rejection of the Government's terms.
(.United Service.) LONDON, Aug. 4. Jhe Government has decided to r<?veri to the pre-war policy of no interference in industrial disputes.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 6 August 1919, Page 5
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