STRIKE IN HOLLAND
KEY SERVICES
BROKEN BY MILITARY
LONDON, June,,9.
News has been received in London of the general strike in Holland which led to the declaration of martial law. The strike began on April 29 as an answer to the Nazi decree for the mass deportation of Dutch workers and the reinternment of Dutch ex-servicemen.
In a very short time factories, shops, and offices closed; farmers left their fields, officials in tax and Customs offices, and law clerks left their desks. Essential services came to a standstill. Dutch' Nazis who tried to work in a factory were driven off with
whips,
The Nazis then got their strikebreaking gangs to work. Martial law was proclaimed, and the German police walked the streets firing off machineguns indiscriminately. Hundreds of Dutchmen are reported to have been shot, and. thousands were brutally beaten. It was not until May 4 that work was begun again in many places.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 136, 10 June 1943, Page 5
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154STRIKE IN HOLLAND Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 136, 10 June 1943, Page 5
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