Ugly scenes were witnessed in the chief thoroughfares of Leeds about noon to-day.
The trouble began when several thousand strikers attacked one of the emergency tramcars with lumps of coal taken from a passing lorry, a number of windows in the tram-car being smashed and passengers having narrow escapes. The strikers rushed towards another tram-car a moment later, but were held back for a time by a strong body of police.
Amid loud cries of ╥down with the police,╙ the strikers rushed on to them. The police backed to a narrower thoroughfare, where they defended themselves with their batons.
Several windows in the main part of Brig-gate were smashed by the strikers. A man was arrested, and the police managed to get him into a side street.
About 5,000 strong, the strikers dashed round another street, but the police, who had been reinforced, managed to keep them clear by their truncheons.
About ten minutes later the windows of two more tram-cars were smashed and several passengers were cut on the face.
