THE LEEDS STRIKE.
MANY FACTORIES CLOSING. ' OTHER MUNICIPALITIES ANXIOUS. Received This Morning, 12.35 o'clock. LONDON, December 16. Other municipalities are watching the Leeds strikers with intense interest, fearing a similar strike. • The cars are running under police protection, but tliey are stopped at nightfall, fearing that they will be storied. Many factories are closing owing to inadequate gas supplies, and others are unable to otien till daylight, and are obliged to close at 4 o clock. Several scuffles occurred between strikers and police, including truncheon . charges, and police . riding through the crowds, ' ' There are now 4000 strikers.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 17 December 1913, Page 5
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97THE LEEDS STRIKE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 17 December 1913, Page 5
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