The Great Strike.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 August 1911, Page 3

The Great Strike.

SIMMERING DISCONTENT.

ANTI-SEMITISM IN WALES. FIERCE FIGHTING. [by klkotbio telegraph-copyright.] [P*R PRKBB ABJQOIATIOH.j LONDON, August 22. The Strike Committee has again called out tho railway men owing to tho Midland Railway trouble. It is officially stated that the men are in a bad temper and all will strike.

Tyne dockers remain out. Further anti-Jewish riot» &t Tredegar occurred. Gangs of roughs threw stonee and bottles at tho police. There was fierce fighting, and mainy were injured in baton charges. A doeen people, wore taken to tho hospital. The Riot Act was read and. the soldiers fixed bayonets a.nd marched through the. printing thoroughfares. The rioters took refuge in tho side streets whence they stoned the military. Many left the town and crossed tho mountain into Ebhdvale.

Here several large Jewish shops wore wrecked and looted.

The militaiy arriving, the plunderers 'hurriedly quitted the shops. Soldiers and police assemibled outside the police station and the Ttiot Act wae read.

The police and military charging, cleared the streets.

Another section <of the same gamg looted nearly every shop in Rlvymncy. Order was finally restored everywhere.

Firo hundred Midland railwaymon at the Kentish town goods station ihavo struck.

(Chronicle Note: Kentish Town station is an important centre of the Midland Railway Company, N.W., and is not "a. Kentish town," as described in some of the newspapers.) THE JEWISH MOTS. (Received This Day. 9.10 a.m.} LONDON, August 22. Rioting has occurred at Tredegar, Ebhdvale and Rhymney (in tihio ddsi'lrbed districts). Tliis is the culmination of .a long-standing grievance regarding house rents against the Jews, who are the principal landlords. The rioters openly removed goods. Thirty injured persons were taken to tho hospital.