STRIKE IN BELGIAN FACTORY
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 17.
A Belgian strike, lasting 10 days in the face of German threats and) the taking of hostages, is reported by the Belgian news agency. The Germans had requisitioned 460 workers from the Charleroi electrical construction works, whereupon the rest of the personnel refused to work, and other factories followed their example. The Germans then arrested 400 local inhabitants as hostages. . A scarcity of coke has compelled l the damping-down of several blast furnaces in Belgium, state's the Belgian news agency. *’
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 226, 19 June 1943, Page 5
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