BELGIAN STRIKE.
TRANSPORTERS COME OUT. A FIASCO ALLEGED. - BY CLERICAL NEWSPAPERS. r t x BRUSSELS, April 15. 11 It is estimated that there are 200,000 3 strikers, chiefly factory workers and ;, miners, in the province of Hainaut and c Namur. o A few transport workers are particie pating in the strike. The Clerical party's newspapers state c that the strike is a fiasco. There is only a little inconvenience. Only 7,000 out of 50,000 men at Ghent have struck, 13,000 out of 49.000 at Brussels, and only 7S out of 0,500 employed at the Ghent Exhibition. Many miners have been saving for the strike. Tbey do not expect the unions to help them for three weeks. A case of sabotage has occurred in a leather factory in Brussels. Three machines were damaged. The signal wires have been cut in the : " Ladouviere district. v
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 90, 16 April 1913, Page 5
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