RIOTS IN ENGLAND
(Rceived July 3, 8.5 a.m.)
LONDON, July 2
A strike of six thousand colliers at Cwm Tillery ( a coal-mining village in Monmouthshire), over tho dismissal of a man for posting trades union notices, Jed to serious rioting. The colliory premises and the manager's house were wrecked, and, as tho local police were unable to copo with the men, reinforcements were sent, whom tho rioters received with volIys of stones. The police made many baton charges before the streets were cleared. Several women and children wore injured.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10677, 4 July 1912, Page 5
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89RIOTS IN ENGLAND Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10677, 4 July 1912, Page 5
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