DRASTIC ACTION.
RISING IN PORTUGAL,
Troops Force Strikers to Work
At Bayonet Point. WAGES TAX PROTEST. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph-Copyright) (Received 10.30 a.m.) LISBON, June 6. Drastic Government action smashed a general strike, called as a protest against the new 2 per cent tax on wages and salaries. Troops brought striking drivers and conductors from their homes at the point of the bayonet and compelled them to operate the tramways. Soldiers also baked b'o,ooo loaves of bread in the Army cookhouse and distributed them in order to defeat the bakers' strike.
Cavalry, with drawn swords, cleared the streets, one man being killed and many wounded in the street fighting. A soldier was blown to pieces in an explosion at the power station.
Although the strike was broken, public opinion may compel a modification of the tax, which is to be used for unemployment relief, for which a beggar is eligible. This lias resulted in a ;>0 per cent increase in mendicants, who pester pedestrians, and invade shops and houses demanding alms.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 133, 7 June 1932, Page 7
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