RENT STRIKE.
EXCITING SCENE. BY CABLE- PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Received Sept. 13, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 12. The Clydebank rent strike, which hinges on the tenants’ demand for prewar rents and their refusal to pay arrears, led to an exciting scene this morning. The arrival of the sheriff’s officers, escorted by the police, to eject a widow and family in St. Granville street, was heralded by the ringing of handbells and blowing of ivhistles, a pre-arranged signal denoting that *an eviction was occurring. A crowd of 500 collected. The officers canted out some of the furniture, but sympathisers swarmed' in and hampered them, compelling the officers to desist. The widow meanwhile had a seizure, and a doctor was summoned. The. crowd was becoming threatening, and the officers drove off in a motor car, pelted with clods of grass and stones. The eroivd 'after-wards-.carried back the furniture. Subsequently several Labour town councillors addressed the crowd, , and a .local committee was formed to organise a campaign of resistance in the event of the house factors declining to join in the rent tribunal. A general rent strike all over the district may be declared.—Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 September 1924, Page 7
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190RENT STRIKE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 September 1924, Page 7
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