DEMONSTRATION BY MINERS
Police Charge In Brussels IN.Z. Press Association—Copyright) BRUSSELS, October 19. Armed police today batton charged a crowd of demonstrating coal miners trying to mob a city bus. Miners’ organisations from southern Belgium had announced a “march on Brussels” in protest against the closing of uneconomic and redundant mines. When the demonstrators arrived in- Brussels this morning by train, they found the area which includes the Ministerial buildings, Parliament House and the Royal Palace—the so-called Brussels “neutral zone”—sealed off by. strong forces of municipal police and riot police wearing black steel helmets and armed with truncheons and rifles. The demonstrators, who numbered about 1000, carried placards with such inscriptions as “You are knowingly dooming our regions,” pr "Before closing our mines, give us work,”
A crowd of about 500 miners gathered in front of the Brussels headquarters of the State’s Coal Mines Administration. One demonstrator climbed on a chair and shouted “comrades, on the day of Baudouin’s and Fabiola’s wedding come to Brussels for a demonstration, all of you.” The King’s wedding day will be December 15.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29342, 22 October 1960, Page 4
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