LABOUR UNREST

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 45, Issue 13753, 4 February 1919, Page 6

LABOUR UNREST

BIOTS IN GLASGOW

"{Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) ' LONDON, Saturday. • Many tramcars were smashed in (ilasjgow, and tobacconists' shops looted. Great crowds assembled early in the afternoon in George Square, Glasgow, the tramway tratlic. Their behaviour became menacing, and necessitated the calling in of a [force of police, mounted and on foot. who were in readiness.

A shower of missiles greeted the poiice, who drew their batons and charged, clearing the space in front of the Ohv Chambers. l"'rcsh processions of strikers, headed 1.1-v- band-", arrived in the Square.

"The situation be-amc critical when Die mob again nrfacked the. police, throwing stones, bolts and rivets. The police, amid counter-cheering and booing, rushed forward, using their batons' freely. A number of Australian soldiers and Army officers, apparently on leave, joined the police, and helped to again dear the space. During the attacks the Sheriffs read tin:. TJiot Act.

'I';,; rioters stop! Ed a brewer's lorry. -And hurled bottles at the police, sonit: of whom were hit.

Forty strikers and police are in hospital. i>ut their injuries are slight. Subsequently the leaders withdrew tlif processionists, and further collisions nvith the police v>vre prevented.