Bailiffs In Strikers’ Flats; Problem Now To Get Out
LONDON. June 27
Bailiffs, assisted by police, fought their way into a tenement block at Stepney, where tenants have been on strike for lower rents for 21 weeks. ■ Hundreds of angry women, in the building and in the streets, booed the police and brandished saucepans and sticks. Several men wore arrested.
An official of the Tenants’ Defence League told the Sydney “Daily Telegraph”:— “The bailiffs have passed the barricades. but whether they will get out again is another matter.”
Bailiffs have been attempting for weeks to execute eviction orders granted by the Whitechapel County Court.
Tenants laid in stocks of soot and flour for “bombs." and barricaded themselves in.
Women drove plain-clothes police from the flats with frying-pans, brooms and saucepans. The bailiffs ejected the tenants, and left the building under police guard., amid jeers from women.
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Northern Advocate, 5 July 1939, Page 11
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