LABOUR TROUBLES.
FRICTION OVER EIGHT HOURS. WILFUL DAMAGE BY MOBS. FREQUENT CONFLICTS WITH POLICE. United Press Association—By Eleotric Telegraph Copyritfut. LONDON, July 9. Owing to friction over the working of the Eight Hours Act, mobs of men and boys are marching through the North Staffordshire colliery towns, breaking down fences and walls. Frequent conflicts have occurred with the police. The trouble was due to the pit boys wanting a special Innch time, which was impossible without a general stoppage of work. There are fifteen thousand strikers in the Sheffield district.
STRIKE IN NOVA SCOTIA. PROPERTY DESTROYED. OTTAWA, July 9. The Mayor of Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, where a thousand strikers attacked workers in the coal-mines who refused to join them has protested against the summoning of troops, alleging that the local police are adequate. He offered to swear in five hundred special constables to Dreserve order. Prior to the arrival of the troops the strikers blew up a railway truck with dynamite, destroyed other property, and poured shots into buildings.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9540, 12 July 1909, Page 5
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172LABOUR TROUBLES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9540, 12 July 1909, Page 5
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