RIOTOUS COAL MINERS.
MOBS FIGHTING THE POLICE.
THE EIGHT HOURS ACT.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.— Copyright.
London, July 9. The friction caused by the coming into operation of the Act providing an eight hours' working day in coal mines is increasing. ' Mobs of men and boys are marching through the North Staffordshire colliery towns, and are breaking down fences and walls as they proceeds There have been frequent conflicts with the police. The trouble is due to the pit boys wanting a special lunch time, which is impossible without a general stoppage of work in, the mines. There are 15,000 strikers in the Sheffield district.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14110, 12 July 1909, Page 5
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