BELGIAN STRIKES
SERIOUS DEVELOPMENTS. [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Received June 10, 11.30 a.m. ) BRUSSELS, June 15. A Committee of Public Order, under the Presidency of M. Van Zeeland, has been constituted to deal with the strikes, which are rapidly extending. A coa\ strike involving 110,000 has become general. The steel workers decided to call a general strike. The strikers stopped trams running in Liege. IN FRANCE. (Received June 16, 1 p.m.) LONDON, June 15. "The Times’s” Paris correspondent says that the stay-in strikes have virtiialy ended. The insurance clerks are expected to resume to-morrow. The majority of the department stores are still occupied, but the end is believed to be in sight.
The position in the provinces is improving with equal rapidity. Four thousand dockers and watermen are still idle in Paris. Those at Bordeaux and Dunkirk have not resumed.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 June 1936, Page 7
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