Osaka, Feb. 24.
"Violent rioting occurred at the Yawata ironworks this morning and the situation is stated to. rowing worse every moment.—enter.
Fukuoka, Feb. 24.
The "Nichi-Vichi" issues an extra giving an account of the serious viot which occurred at the Yawata ironworks early this morning. It appears that about 50 men entered the works and urged the employees in the engine-rooms and other departments to down tools instigating them to acts of violence. "Some 600 men," the report adds, "then gathered in front of the works office and threw stones breaking the windows. Outside the works a large number of workmen marched off towards the park shouting stop work. The men have ceased working the furnaces.""—Reuter.
Osaka, Feb. 24.
The cause of the sudden revival of trouble at the Yawata iron works appears to have been dissatisfaction of the men with the attitude of Mr. Yamamoto, Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, and Mr. Shirani, Director of the Yawata works, whom the men's representatives interview-in Tokio.
They appear immediately to have telegraphed to Yawata to restart the trouble.
The men passed three resolutions, first, protesting against the '"insincerity of the officials," second to
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