LABOUR UP IN ARMS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 145, 25 July 1914, Page 9

LABOUR UP IN ARMS.

RUSSIAN STRIKE RIOTS.

MANY DEATHS EEPORTED. '

By Cable.— Press Association. — Copyright, v ST. PETERSBURG, July 24.

The employees of the Government gun factory at Obukhoff are joining the strike-

There were collisions with the police throughout Wednesday, and it is estimated that twenty were killed-and a hundred wounded. ■

A thousand people assembled outside thfe Imperial porcelain factory and stoned the windows.

Eight* thousand shipbuilders at Nikollefr struck. Several were wounded in a: collision with the troops.

fhe police : arrested thirty members of the strike committee, including the editorial staffs of two Labour newspapers. FIGHTING IN THE SUBURBS. RESTAURANTS DEMOLISHED. (Received July. 25, 9.5 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, July 24. At Viborg the factories and Government dockyards are closing down for a fortnight. The situation generally is easier, and many small businesses have been reopened. The disorders in the suburbs have been renewed, where two restaurants were demolished. There were several conflicts between the Cossacks and the rioters, many of the latter being wounded.