SANGUINARY RIOTS.
SEQUEL TQ SABOTAGE.
*• POL.'OE FIRE ON CROWDS.
TWELVE PERSONS KILLED,' '\
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.); LONDON, May 28.
The Daily Express' Salonika corresJ pondent states that.serious rioting is faking nlace owing to a tobacco lockout.
As the result of a cut in the wages of the tobacco carers the latter resorted to .sabotage, necessitating the warehouses being guarded by miiu tary.
When the New York-Thracian Company engaged five free labourers, th« crowd, armed with stones, arrived. The guards first used the butts of their rifles. Then two were stabbed with knives, and orders were given to fire, 12 rioters being killed. The tobacco warehouses are now guarded by machine guns. ' Sympathetic strikes among the railwaymen, dockers and transport work-» ers are feared.
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Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15998, 29 May 1924, Page 7
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