STRIKES IN ITALY
LIVING COSTS PROTESTS (11 a.m.) ROME, Sept. 5
Demonstrations against the high living costs and low wages continue to spread. Twenty thousand textile workers have struck at Prato. Thousands of dock workers have ceased work at La Spexia, paralysing port activity. Bus trolley-car conductors have struck in Naples. The police at Carrara were called out to quell a crowd which threatened to sack the local prefecture. They arrested about 20 persons. > Demonstrations against the Government’s domestic policies have spread throughout Italy, with strikes in 11 cities. Four hundred troops and police, supported by four tanks, were called out at Cnsale, near Turin, to quell a demonstration called by the Partisans’ Association as a protest against the high cost of living, food shortages and the release of former Fascists. Turin staged a sympathy strike.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22427, 6 September 1947, Page 5
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