DOCKERS STONE POLICE.
MOB DISPERSED WITH BATONS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, July 17. Tho Leith dockers have been rioting. They broke a hundred shop windows and stoned the police. There has been considerable looting. Tho police made baton charges and dispersed the rioters. Eleven police were injured and thirty persons had to be sent to hospital. (Sydney "Sun" Special.) London, July 17. . The police at Leith were escorting a train from tho docks to the Caledonian Station when they were stoned by two thousand strikers. Three of the police were injured while endeavouring to disperse the strikers with tlieixl batons. HULL DOCKERS OUT. (Rec! July 18, 11.20 p.m.) London, July 18.. W thousand dockers at Hull harp struck for an increase of a halfpenny an hour on night shifts, and to cease day work at 5 p.m. throughout the year.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1806, 19 July 1913, Page 5
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140DOCKERS STONE POLICE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1806, 19 July 1913, Page 5
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