Post by KG on Jul 17, 2018 23:48:54 GMT
The Cardiff Riots of 1911.
July 18th 1911, saw rioting and strikes in Cardiff, as the Great Unrest swept across South Wales. The disturbances were the results initially of the shipowners failure to recognise the Seamen's union but soon spread among dockers and other workers. On the 19th July a warehouse on the docks was set alight and when fire workers turned the hoses on the strikers, they retaliated by pelting stones at the firemen.
Elsewhere Chinese laundries were targeted, with all 30 within the city wrecked. Five hundred Lancashire Fusiliers and 350 Metropolitan Constabulary were deployed to assist in maintaining order and during repeated baton charges, 30 people including several police were seriously injured. During the summer, the discontent spread, culminating with copper workers in Swansea by October, but it also took in railway workers in Llanelli and colliers in the Valleys. Virtually no sector of Welsh society was untouched.
July 18th 1911, saw rioting and strikes in Cardiff, as the Great Unrest swept across South Wales. The disturbances were the results initially of the shipowners failure to recognise the Seamen's union but soon spread among dockers and other workers. On the 19th July a warehouse on the docks was set alight and when fire workers turned the hoses on the strikers, they retaliated by pelting stones at the firemen.
Elsewhere Chinese laundries were targeted, with all 30 within the city wrecked. Five hundred Lancashire Fusiliers and 350 Metropolitan Constabulary were deployed to assist in maintaining order and during repeated baton charges, 30 people including several police were seriously injured. During the summer, the discontent spread, culminating with copper workers in Swansea by October, but it also took in railway workers in Llanelli and colliers in the Valleys. Virtually no sector of Welsh society was untouched.