HAVANA RIOT
NEWSPAPER OFFICE DESTROYED [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] HAVANA, December 17. The trouble*at the “El Pais” office started when a group of foreign workers, mostly Spanish, demonstrated against a new Labour law requiring that establishments shall hire at least 50 per cent, of natives. Government supporters, many of whom are-said to have been soldiers in civilian clothes, dispersed the demonstrators, and then attacked “El Pais.” Neither the military nor the police made the slightest attempt to control them. A final check shows the casualties were four killed, including two of the pressmen, and a score or more injured. Firemen were able to save the shell of the “El Pais” building, but the interior was demolished. A bomb was exploded in the Span-ish-owned newspaper “Diario de la Marina.” There was slight damage, but iio casualties.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 December 1933, Page 7
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