A STRIKE RIOT.

West Coast Times, 22 March 1910, Page 3

A STRIKE RIOT.

A MURDEROUS ATTACK. [PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPTT.I'.HT 1 PARIS, .March 21. Two hundred sinkers in a paper factory at Cliichy (France) infuriated by comrades (chiefly women and girls) refusal to cease work laid in wait until dark and fired a volley of revolver shots at the non-strikers, who took refuge in a eafe, which the strikers bombarded with revolver shots and stones, until the police arrived. Several women and two policemen were wounded. The assailants extinguished the street lamps. Thirty escaped. The women were chiefly responsible and treated the nonstrikers with savage violence. A series of similar murderous attacks were made on non-strikers in the various provincial districts during the week.