English Strikes.

Manawatu Herald, 12 September 1893, Page 2

English Strikes.

The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln Eailway Company has Htopped 45 nnl the Midland Bailway Company 14 additional trainSj owing go want of doal«

Much rioting has taken place^ in Leeds and the neighbouring district. About 8000 colliers, many of them armed with weapons, brutally hunted off the free men, and compelled the coal owners to discontinue employing them.

tfhe police were unable to cope with the rioters.

The military maintained order in Derbyshire. Much violence has been displayed in the Sheffield and Nottingham districts.

Troops^have reached Barnsley. The police at Dewsbury were stoned and driven back.

They afterwards armed themselves with cutlasses, charged, and repeatedly pursued the rioters for miles.

Safes were looted, and the interior ot the manager's house was utterly wrecked. The wine cellar was pillaged, as also were the housed of free labourers, the women and children being driven out of them. Fifty trucks were thrown 'down the shaft of a pit. . At Sheffield the rioters stormed and burned the coalshed of the Manchester and Sheffield Bailway.

Ten thousand men assembled in the vicinity of Pontefract, burned timber yards and pit shafting, and looted the shops.

The rioting went on for several hours, till a magistrate was found who read the Riot Act.

The troops then fired on the mob, wounding five and killing . one, add afterwards charged with the bayonet.

A thousand policeman will be sent from London to Dewsbury and Pontefract.