TROUBLE AT HOME.
UNEMPLOYED INTIMIDATE WORKERS. DRIVEN OFF BY POLICE. Per Press Association —Copy right), London, May 15. During the past few weeks bodies of unemployed have visited various factories in Sheffield intimidating the workers, many of whom were terrorised into leaving their employment. Many of tin: works are now guarded by the police. A crowd of three thousand attacked Dessops works and overpowered the guard and wrecked the offices. A small body of mounted police were driven bad by volleys of stones and finally a police squad and 40 mounted men charged with batons, scattering the crowd.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 17 May 1922, Page 5
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