Attempts to Create Trouble Met! by Firm Action by the Police Three labour disturbances took place on Thursday, in which, fortunately, no casualties ceeurred, although in one the emerzesey squad] was called out.
As far as is knowe four arrests were made by the police. On the whole no serious trouble was encountered, but, there remains the element of doubt as to suture developments.
Early on Thursday afternoon, dences of a disturbance was noted at} the Tramwaymen's Union headquarters on Yulin Road, where it had] een removed subsequent to the at tempted kidnapping of an omnibus motorman, on Pingliang Road. Wayside police station was notified. Available men turned out, but it] was found impossible to cope with) the situation and the emergency] squad from the dépdt at Garden Road were called for and despatched to the spot at once, With their help, a subsequent return aid by the workers was subdued in which 60 or 60 of the rioters were} embroiled the police. After quite a number of them went off with injuries, as is usual when poli and mobs meet, the disturbance was Smplified—the nett result being foot Yingleaders being taken to the tation, the other removing them-elves as best possible, "In the Pootoo Road district the police had to turn out to break up)
procession. Mill workers, edged on by agitators, were determined to proceed with a demonstration. They were not of the unruly nature fas those in the turbulence, and the police had no too great difficulty in dispersing them into Chapel, The most portentous of all affairs of the day did not eventuate, A minor massing of the workers of the Ew9 mill at. the premises on Wetmore Rou, fell to nothing, probably befeause the day and night shift workers were not properly organized,
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