STRIKE-BREAKERS' RIOT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 239, 9 October 1907, Page 7

STRIKE-BREAKERS' RIOT.

The Handelsblad states that shortly before eleven o'clock on the evening of August 16th th& captain of the steamer Cambroman, on which the English Antwerp strikers breakers-are quartered, sent an urgent message for police assistance. It appears that the Englishmen raided the ship's pantries, and after broaching thirty-two barrels of beer, drank the contents. They then seized a quantity of other drink and food and threw the stores of butter overboard. To the remonstrances of the officers the men replied with threats, and they afterwards broke in the doors of the officers' cabins, taking possession of sixteen revolvers and a number of razors. When the police arrived \they found the rioters lying about- the deck, the majority of them overcome by drink. Thirty policemen remained all night on the ship with drawn revolvers. In the morning the Englishmen posted up notices in their quarters demanding an increase of a shilling in their pay from to-morrow. The number of strike breakers at work was very small, only fifty men having gone to the ships on which they wore engaged from the Cambrcman, wheretheir companions remained under tho influence of liquor. At eleven o'clock a telephone message was sent to the pc-lice declaring that the men absolutely refused to> go on board the tug, and,that they were dancing and singing. The captain was ultimately obliged to put several of them in irons.