CHILEAN COLLIERY UNREST
COMMUNISTS ARRESTED SANTIAGO (Chile), August 22. Thirty-five Communists were arrested to-day in the coal mine zone at Lota, in South Chile, where a two-day strike by 954 miners has just ended. The miners, tired and hungry after their sit-down strike, emerged from the pits and threatened to attack four Communist agitators. They claimed that the Communists had tricked them into the strike by saying that the whole nation was striking and that a revolution had broken out in Santiago. The four agitators were among the arrested Communists. A general state of emergency has been" in effect in Chile since Saturday, when troops were sent to guard the coal, copper, and nitrate mines.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 267, 24 August 1949, Page 3
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