STRIKE RIOTS IN FRANCE.
TROOPS CLEAR THE STREETS. § RAILWAY TRACK DYNAMITED I ,".■•;•', PARIS, May 14. . .-.A great crowd of dock workers assembled to-day at the gaol at Havre, demanding the release of an imprisoned strike leader. Two squadrons of /Chasseurs drove the crowd from the streets. i'The track of the Paris-Bordeaux rail- ■ way was destroyed with dynamite near • -ours, but the outrage was discovered in time. The General Confederation of Labour - is appealing to the International Socialists to co-operate and prevent the suppression of the confederation. The latter has ordered a general gas strike 0i..-Friday.—(Af and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 116, 15 May 1920, Page 7
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