PROTEST STRIKE BEGUN
BELGIANS EMPLOYED IN FRANCE GOVERNMENT ORDER OPPOSED (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 13. Reuter’s Paris correspondent says that 60,000 Belgian workers employed in France have struck as a protest against a French Government order forbidding them to take more than half their earnings in francs back to Belgium. Belgian pickets guarded the border to stop strike-breakers crossing. The Belgians are employed mainly in French textile, steel, and building enterprises. The French Government offered them in compensation permission to buy whatever food they wanted in France and to take it into Belgium, but the Belgian Government refused this offer.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25678, 15 December 1948, Page 5
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