STRIKES IN BELGIUM
EXTENDING RAPIDLY COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ORDER CONSTITUTED Pres* Association —By Telegraph—Copyright BRUSSELS, June 15, (Received June 16, at 11 a.m.) A Committee of Public Order, under the presidency of M. van Zeeland, has been constituted to deal with the strikes,, which are rapidly extending. The coal strike, involving 110,000, has become general, and the steel workers have decided to call a general strike at noon. Strikers stopped the trams running at Leige. FRENCH SITUATION EASIER DOCKERS STILL IDLE Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, June 15. (Received June 16, at 11.45 a.m.) The Paris correspondent of * The Times ’ says the “ stay-in ” strikes have virtually ended. Insurance clerks are expected to resume to-morrow. The majority of the department stores are still occupied, hut the end is believed to he in sight. The position in the provinces is improving with equal rapidity. Four thousand dockers and watermen are still idle in Paris, and those at Bordeaux and Dunkirk have not resumed. 170,000 ON STRIKE FURTHER CLASHES REPORTED. BRUSSELS, June 15. (Received June 16, at 2 p.m.) The newspaper ‘ L’lndependence Beige ’ estimates that the strikers number 170,000. At Liege mounted gendarmes charged 500 strikers with drawn sabres after the strikers, singing the 1 Internationale,’ twice attempted to storm a bazaar under the leadership of a giant Communist deputy, Lahaut, to prevent shop girls working. A clash occurred at St. Walburge, where the Commissioner of Police and a gendarme were knocked down and trampled on. Strikers attempted to stop trains at Rocourt. Shots were fired and three police were wounded. The strike lias extended to the metallurgical works in the province of Hainault.
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Evening Star, Issue 22366, 16 June 1936, Page 9
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271STRIKES IN BELGIUM Evening Star, Issue 22366, 16 June 1936, Page 9
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