THE CARDIFF STRIKE.
BROKEN BOTTLES AND STONES. London, July 24. The Cardiff strikers, including a formidable hooligan element, made a concerted attack on the skating rink used for the quarters of the imported Metropolitan police. The riot continued throughout Saturday night. The police drove ti e mob from the street, but broken bottles and bags filled tvith stones necessitated truncheon charges. The police were also struck by dozen of strikers’ lists. Many shop fronts wore wrecked, and the' windows of private houses broken. 'Twenty police were seriously hurt.
Ben Tillet, speaking at Victoria Park to the Transport Workers’ Organisation, said they had more power to stop food supplies than all the Dreadnoughts in the world. They are to-day conferring with capitalists representing £1,000,000,000. There must bo no hesitation, and he asked all the transport workers to support the London stoppage.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 130, 25 July 1911, Page 5
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