CHAOS IN THE RUHR.
TROUBLE BETWEEN THE MINEOWNERS AND MEN. RIOT AT ESSEN. i‘F.B PBES3 ASSOCIATION— CORTBIgHT LONDON, Nov. 19. The Times’ Cologne correspondent [states that the decision of the Ruhr [mineowners, from December Ist t<» [only permit the employment of men (working ten hours a day, is causing ! bitter feeling among the men, who ! are getting out of hand. | Wholesale demonstrations are being held and one ait Essen led to I serious rioting wherein three were killed and many wounded. The police I had been compelled to fire on the i demonstrators, who replied with re- | volvers and hand grenades, sheltering behind barricades erected in the :streets. Eventually French troops, with armoured ears, intervened, and cleared the streets. Separatist agents took advantage of the occasion to placard the town, .proclaiming the Rhineland a republic Meanwhile the trade unions of the Rhineland and Westphalia are urging the Government to take over and run the mines, adding that they can m j admit the occupying powers are aio n io blame for the present chaos
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 20 November 1923, Page 5
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