LABOUR TROUBLES.
(Received Sept. 27, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, September 26. There 'has been rioting at Swansea, where the wagon workers are on strike. A crowd .at midndgttit invaded the works, smashing the contents. j Two men, drunken and stripped to j the waist, were urged to assault the caretakers. i Tlhe police made a baton charge, and - the crowd retaliated with stones. Ten policemen were injured, but order was restored. Harold Spiers, a deserter from 'the Worcester Regiment after the strike trouble at Llanley, who declared he was ordered to shoot to kill a riot leader, and whol was subsequently arrested for deserting, has been sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment. A strike among the coal porters and dockers at Deptford is alleged to be due to the dock owners not' complying with a recent award. Dockers elsewhere have shown a disinclination to handle goods from i the "infected" area. |
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10435, 28 September 1911, Page 3
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