LABOR UNREST

Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1919, Page 5

LABOR UNREST

. - EIOTS--N GLASGOW. • \,fcj MOBS ATTACK THE POLtC'B. j Received Feb..-3, 7.5-ip.Tn. London, Jan. 31. Many tramcars were smashed at Glasgow, and tobacconists' shops looted.— xi.ua. and N.Z. Cable Assoc.

Received 3, 8.55 p.m. London, Jau- 31.

Great crowds assembled early in the afternoon in Cieorge Square, Glasgow, blocking the tramway traffic. Their behaviour became menacing, necessitating tlie calling in of a force ol police mounted and loot, who were in readiness. A shower of misailui greeted the police, who drew batons and charged, clearing a space in front of the City Chambers. Fresh procession of strikers, headed by bands, arrived in the Square. The situation became ijjitical when tlie mob again attacked the police, throwing stones, bolts and rivets. The police, amid counter cheering and booing,'rushed forward, using their b&ttons' freely. A number of Australian soldiers and army officers, apparently on leave, joined the police, and helped again to clear the space during the attacks on the sherrif who was reading the Riot Act. — Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assoc. London, Jan. 31.

Rioters stopped a breweries' lorry and hurled the bottles at the police, some of whom were hit. Forty strikers an.l police are iir hospital, but their injuries fire slight. Subsequently the leaders withdraw from the procession and further collisions with the police were prevented. —Aus-NZ. Cable Asboc. 40 HO URS W EEK. ' j_ , ENGINEERS THREATEN TO STROKE. London, Feb. 2* Thirty London branches of tEe amalgamated engineers have decided upon a general strike on Thursday unless they are granted a forty hour week. Two hundred thousand men are affected. Troops; have been sent to Glasgow, and the city is now quiet- Troops are stationed in the principal atJaets. Councillor Shonwell lias been arrested on a charge of inciting a riot.— "Ws.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. MINSTERS AND LEADERS MJEET. Received 3, 8.55 p.m. IT London, Feb. 1. Mr Shortt (Minister for Home Af fairs), Sir Albert Stanley (President of the Board of Trade) and Lord Calthorpe itiscuseed the miners' demands with the executive of the Miners* Federation- The Minister promised to lay the facts before the War Cabinet, a.nd expected a reply would be possible within a week.

STRIKE IN AMERICAN SHIPYARDS. Received Feb. 3, 9.10 p.m. Vancouver, Jan. 31. Twenty-flve thousand shipyard enr ployees at Seattle and Tacoma have struck for higher wages. STRIKE IN LONDON TUBES. London, Feb. 2. A strike involving the stoppage of fivn london tube? began at midnight, over the interpretation of the oipiit hours' arrangement. The strikers threaten that other electric services will bo involved if troops, are brought in.—Aug. N.2. Cable Assoc. i

PERU RIOTERS FIRED ON. New York, Jan. 31. Dispatches from Lima say that the strikers who were rioting in northern Peru were fired on Kv the troops and several killed. There are general strikes at Trujillo and Salaverrv. Dispatches from Santiago say that the strike situation at Autofagasta is grave and troops have been dispatched there.