LABOUR RIOTS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2835, 13 September 1890, Page 2

LABOUR RIOTS.

THE SOUTHAMPTON STEIKE

(liV EI.EUTKIO TELKIiUAI'II. —I'OPYKIOIIT.) London, September li. Tile strikers at Southampton stoned the military, who dispersed the crowd at the point of the bayonet. Several persons wore wounded. The arrival of the soldiery was received with much hooting at Southampton, accompanied by threats of rescuing prisoners, but no actual conflict occurred. There arc 500 troops in the town, and two gunboats are co-operating with them. The Koynl Mail Steamship Company locked its employees up for safety. All the shipping industries in the town are federating. Tha lire brigade drenched the strikers at Southampton. The soldiers cleared the streets, and are guarding the docks, to prevent picketing. Bluejackets patrol the harbour ir. boats, to prevent ships being meddled with. The dockers nre willing to accept jd per hour by dav, and (3d at night, but the masters decline to exclude non-Unionists. It is doubtful whether the London executive will support the strike. The Admiralty are preventing the dockers from blockaling Southampton. The Union Steamship Company threaten to remove their works from Southampton to London if the strike succeeds.