STAY-IN MINE STRIKE
MINERS & WOMEN FIRED ON
DEMONSTRATION IN HUNGARY
deceived February 25, 10.40 a.m.)'' , BUDAPEST, February 24.
Gendarmes killed two persons and wounded three others when they flredi a volley on a group of miners and women demonstrating in support of a stay-in mine strike at Funfkirchen.
Officials declare that the gendarmes fired in self-protection when they were attacked by miners' wives who declared that they were wit'iout money and food while the strikers, numbering 400, remained below, where they are ignoring the underground telephone, The pumps are out of action and the workings are slowly flooding, while there is a risk of a fire damp explosion. The lamps are exhausted and the pit ponies unfed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 9
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