PARIS STRIKERS' BATTLE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1910, Page 13

PARIS STRIKERS' BATTLE.

« Disgraceful riots took plac© on Friday, 18th March, says the Daily Mail's Paris correspondent, in the suburb of Clicby-Levallois, where 200 employees of the paper factories there had gone on strike. A number of women and girl workers who had refused to join tho movement were leaving work at about six o'clock, escorted by five policemen, when a group of women strikers made a determined rush for a young workgirl. Throwing themselves on the girl, the strikers dragged her along by the hair, kicking and beating her. A policeman, fighting his way in among the women, placed himself before the victim and shouted, "Kill me if you will, bat let this 'child' alone." The men str'kers then joined in the fray, and as more police came up both men and women rioters drew revolvers and began to fire delibeately at the police and at their comrades who had been compelled to seek refuge in a cafe, which the strikers mercilessly bombarded! with revolvers and stones until the arrival of a big force of police put them to flight. , Two policeman were seriously wounded. Several arrests were made, and tbe strikers have all been replaced at the • factories.

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