More Labour Riots
[Per Press Association] London, September 7. The riots were renewed in the vicinity of Barnsley with serious results. A band of 600 miners attacked the men at work at the Wath colliery, destroying the books and machinery, and setting lire to the coal heaps. These outrages were repeated at the Manver's Maid colliery, and the rioters then returned to tho Wath colliery, and in a drunken state burned down the oflices and rolled the blazing tubs down the shaft. The police were summoned and succeeded in dispersing the mob. The Trades Union Congress at Belfast, representing nmo hundred thousand men. by a two-thirds majority instructed tho Labour members in tho House of Com* mons to support the collective ownership and control of all means of production and distribution. Much rioting has taken place in Leeds and district. Eight thousand colliers, many of them armed with weapons, brutally hunted off the free men and compelled others to discontinue employing them. The police were unable to cope with the rioters. The military have maintained order in Derbyshire. Much violence was displayed in Sheffield and Notts districts. The troopß have reached Barnsley.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 60, 8 September 1893, Page 2
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