Naples Peasants On Strike
(N-Z- Press Association—Copyright) NAPLES, June 11. Fresh police reinforcements were moving out into the countryside round Naples early today as angry peasants staged a 24-hour strike in protest against low potato prices. During the night, mobile units patrolled constantly in an attempt to prevent a repetition of the previous night’s incidents when many rickyards of farmers refusing to leave their potatoes undug were set on fire.
A tense atnfosphere reigned today over the whole region east of Naples where a town hall was half burnt, a potato packing plant wrecked, and unco-operative peasants beaten up during outbreaks of unusual violence on Monday and Tuesday. The strike affecting the whole province of Naples, was called last night by the Traders and Smallholders’ Union and the Federation of •Farm Labourers in spite of a Government offer to buy £57,000 worth of potatoes direct from the peasants.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28920, 13 June 1959, Page 11
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