TRAMWAY STRIKE IN BRUSSELS.
EXTENSION OF TROUBLE LIKELY. (Rec. 9.45 a.m.) BRUSSELS, Nov. 28. Tram drivers and conductresses struck this morning, paralysing the transport of the city. They marched through the city in a demonstration against the Pierlot Government. The transport strike has increased the tension at a critical time. Metal workers, postmen and railwayman stopped work last night in a suburb where lived some of those injured in the demonstration last Saturday. ' The Communist newspaper “Drapeau Rouse,” claims that the Brussels police are sympathetic to the strikers. The demonstrators in the march today shouted: “Bread and coal” and “Down with the Pierlot Government. The latest reports state that transport workers in the Brabant province and workers in several industrial undertakings would strike. The Chamber of Deputies has assembled after a week-end marked by antiGovernment demonstrations.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 42, 29 November 1944, Page 3
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