STRIKERS EJECTED.
EARLY MORNING POLICE RAID IN ALEXANDRIA. SPINNING FACTORY CLEARED. OVER NINE HUNDRED ARRESTS.
LONDON, June 26. The Alexandria correspondent .of The Times” states that a thousand workmen began a stay-in strike in a cotton-spinning factory and barricaded themselves in the building. Three hundred slippered and bare-footed police raided the premises after a fire brigade had smashed the doors at 4 a.m. and pounced on the strikers in the darkness, which rendered their throwing of missiles so inaccurate that only two police were injured. Nine hundred and twenty men were arrested and taken to barracks in lorries and subsequently imprisoned. Fiftysix were admitted to hospital. The trouble was due to tyros demanding the same wages as experienced hands.
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Wairarapa Age, 29 June 1936, Page 5
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