AFFAIR IN HAVANA
ATTACK ON NEWSPAPER
OFFICES CUTTED
NEW YORK, December 17. The trouble in Havana started When a group of foreign workers, mostly Spanish, demonstrated against a new labour law requiring establishments t6 hire at least 60 pct1 cent. Of natives*.
Government supporters, many said to be soldiers in civilian clothes, dispersed the demonstrators, then attacked the office Of "El Pais."
Neither the military hoi' the' police made the slightest attempt to control them.
A ilnal check of the casualties shows four were killed, including two newspaper men, and over 20 were injured.
.Firemen wcro a-blo to saves tho she'll of tho "131 Pais" building, but tho interior" wns demolished.
A bomb exploded in the Spanishownccl newspaper, "Dlario do la Marina." Slight damage was caused, tut there ■were no casualties*
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 147, 19 December 1933, Page 11
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131AFFAIR IN HAVANA Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 147, 19 December 1933, Page 11
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