STRIKES SPREAD
BELGIAN SITUATION XEAPJXG THE CAPITA! GRAVE TURN AT LIEGE United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—CopjTlght. (Received June 18, noon.) j BRUSSELS, June 17. The Belgian strikes are coming nearer the capital.
Five hundred metallurgical employees in the suburb of Ruysbroeck are ceasing work.
The authorities announce that foreigners participating in agitations will be expelled. Liege resembles a beleaguered city. The tram and taxi services have been stopped, and the use of bicycles is prohibited in order to frustrate the speedy assemblage of strikers. The Liege strike took a grave turn when strikers attempted to raid an arms factory. The police drove them off and arrested 15. Gangs attempted to stop traffic in the city, and interfered with pedestrians, necessitating repeated police charges.
THREAT TO TRANSPORT. The strikes are spreading elsewhere, and all transport services with the exception of the railways are threatened.
Twelve thousand textile workers at Ghent have quitted the looms, and factories in the Verviers area are ceasing work. The heavy industriei at Charleroi are at a standstill. PARTIAL AGREEMENT AT CONFERENCE.
A conference, under the presidency of the Premier (M. Van Zeeland), between employers and trade unionists agreed upon a minimum wage and six paid holidays annually, but the 40-hour week question remains unsettled.
POSITION IN FRANCE MANY WORKERS STILL OUT SENATE PASSES BILLS (Received June 18, 1 p.m.) PARIS, June 17. The Senate passed Bills permitting indemnities to civil servants, exempting -ex-servicemen's pensions from taxation, and granting paid holidays for workers. Metropolitan strikers who are still idle number 50,000 to 60,000. The situation is no better in Marseilles, and worse in Lyons, St. Chamond, Angers, La Rochelle, Le Havre, and Mulhouse.
CONCESSIONS IN MOROCCO
(Received June 18, noon.) CASABLANCA, June 17. The sugar workers have resumed work, but the metal works and paint works are idle. The Council of National Defence has approved of the establishment by the Resident-General (M. Peyrons) of «n 8-hour day and a minimum wage for native workers.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 143, 18 June 1936, Page 9
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