BELGIAN STRIKES

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 227, 22 June 1936, Page 10

BELGIAN STRIKES

Compromise Settlement

With Dockers

(Received June 21, 7.45 p.in.)

Brussels, June 21.

The strike of Antwerp dockers, whien started an epidemic of hold-ups, has been settled after a compromise on the minimum wage question on Hie intervention of the Premier, M. Van Zeeland. Employers and workers in the principal industries, including the cbal miners, agreed to an increased minimum wage, a six days paid holiday, and freedom to form trade unions. It is expected the workers will, resume after the week-end. The institution of a 44-hour week has been left to tne Government’s initiative.

The strike in East Flanders has spread to the motor transport of food, building and chemical industries. Troops with machine-guns behind barbed wire are in position at numerous points throughout the country, but the Minister of the Interior reports there is calmness everywhere.

MARSEILLES SEAMEN

London, June 19.

The Seamen’s Union has called a general strike at Marseilles and has ordered the seamen to take possession of ships if their claims are not accepted by next Monday.

The special correspondent of the Australian Associated Press Agency at Marseilles says that instead of finding themselves in what is normally one of the liveliest cities in Europe, Olympic Games competitors who are landing tonight will encounter a Marseilles which the inhabitants call half-dead owing to the strike, which persists with almost full force here, though it has been settled elsewhere. There are no taxis and leading hotels, stores and restaurants are closed. The streets are filled with quiet strikers who are amusing themselves playing bowls in any open space.