SENSATION ON CLYDEBANK

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11934, 15 September 1924, Page 8

SENSATION ON CLYDEBANK

PRE-WAR RENTS .DEMANDED, AND ARREARS REFUSED. EJECTMENT FAILS. ' Bv , Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Cowrrifiht . Ben tor’s. Telegram. LONDON, September 12. The Clydebank rent strike, whioh hinges on the, tenants’' demand tor pre-war rents,' and on their refusal to. > ptty aWearev led -to-exciting'scenes: this morn&gv-V’Mie"* arrival of sheriff 's offi-’ebrs.-'eeoortedby 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, the pre-arranged signal denoting that an eviction was taking place. A crowd of 500 collected. The officers carried' out some' of the furniture, but sympathisers swarmed in the house and hampered the work, compelling the officers to desist. The widow meanwhile had a seizure, and a doctor was summoned. The' crowd became threatening, and, the officers - drove off in a motor-par, pelted with - clouds of grass and stones. The crowd afterwards car ried the furniture hack into the house. Subsequently, several Labour town councillors addressed the crowd, and a local oomrtiittee was formed to organise a campaign of resistance in the event of house factors declining to join The rent tribunal A general rent strike throughout the district may -be declared.