STRIKE OF TENANTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18814, 15 September 1924, Page 7

STRIKE OF TENANTS.

SCOTTISH RENTS TROUBLE.

WIDOWS EVICTION PREVENTED.

Reuter. LONDON. Sept. 12. A rent strike which is in progress at Clydebank and which hinges on the refusal of tenants to pay any rent over and above that paid by them before the Great War, led to an exciting scene this morning. The arrival of the sheriff's officers, escorted by police, to eject a widow and her family in St. Granville Street, was heralded by the ringing of hand bells and the blowing of whistles. This was a pre-arranged signal denoting that an eviction was occurring. A crowd of 500 people collected. The officers carried out some of the furniture, but sympathisers of the tenants swarmed in and hampered the authorities, compelling the officers to desist. Tho widow raeanwhilo had a seizure, and a doctor was summoned Tho crowd becoming threatening, the officers drovo off in a motor-car. As they left they were pelted with clods of grass and stones. The crowd afterwards carried back tho furnituro which had been removed. Subsequently several Labour members of tho town council addressed the crowd. A local committee was formed to organiso a campaign of resistance. A general rent strike all over tho district may be declared.