INDIAN STRIKES
1 TRAFFIC HOLD-UP IN CALCUTTA
HAND OF MOSCOW AGAIN
(Australian Press Association.) (Rec. May 11, 11.15 p.m.) Calcutta, May 11. The East Indian railway strike took a grave turn last night, when thousands of strikers held up traffic in the business quarter of Calcutta. They attacked European officials and civilians. Private motor-cars and trains were obstructed on the Howrah-Anita railway. Passengers wore ordered out and trams bombarded with stones. Strikers boarded trams, robbed conductors, and dragged out and assaulted occupants, who were escorted to safety by armed police. The attacks mostly were confined to police officers, whose cars were wrecked. The arrest of the strike leader, named Banerjee, who recently returned from Moscow, was the signal for a wild rush by thousands in an attempt at rescue, and the police were forced to release the leader. Finally the tram services were suspended. Europeans were forbidden to use roads in the strike area. The Bombay mill strikers have received £3OOO from Moscow.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 189, 12 May 1928, Page 10
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