OUT OF WORK.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 10 August 1921, Page 1

OUT OF WORK.

UNEMPLOYED RAID. ENGLAND’S LARGEST WOODYARD. (Per Press Association—Copyright). LONDON, August 8. Serious rioting occurred at Gliksten’s timbery ard, East London, the largest timberyard in England. Five thousand unemployed, many of I whom had waited all night long, came in response to an advertisement for 50 men. They were so angered at the failure to secure work that they broke the gates and raided the offices. Police and mounted men were summoned from the surrounding stations, until they were 500 strong. They forced the men out of the gates, but some hours after the riot had been quelled the yard caught fire, and stocks worth £1,000,000 are threatened with total destruction. The yard covers 22 acres, which is a blazing inferno. UNEMPLOYED GUILTLESS. LONDON, August 8. Mr Bliksten informed the Press that the unemployed were totally unconnected with the fire outbreak, which commenced on the Lea Canal side, unattainable by them.