COAL STRIKE SEQUEL.
LOYAL WORKERS MOLESTED. REIGN OF TERROR PREVAILS. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Nov. 11. The Evening News says that a vendetta,, amounting to a reign of terror, exists in the West Lothian mining villages of Stoneyburn and Breich against safetymen and miners, who resumed work before the conclusion of the coal strike. There have been several attempts to blow up. houses with explosives, shops have been ransacked and children beaten. Gelignite was used to blow up the Foulshields colliery electric cable. Safetymen declare they were twice fired at -by revolvers from a swiftly-passing motor-car. The outrages are so persistent that Stoneyburn has been named Moscow and Breich Siberia.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19512, 16 December 1926, Page 13
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110COAL STRIKE SEQUEL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19512, 16 December 1926, Page 13
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