STRIKE CALLED OFF
UNIONS IN ROME LONDON, Dec. 12. The Chamber of Labour, representing Rome’s trade unions, announced that it had unanimously voted to end the general strike at midnight tonight. The Chamber of Labour declared that the Rome municipality appropriation for winter relief of unemployed had met the strikers’ demands. The announcement followed a day of clashes and unrest. , , The Associated Press’ correspondent in Rome says that observers believe that the Ramans’ growing resentment also influenced the decision to end the strike. Heavily reinforced police acted vigorously and sometimes ruthlessly today to carry out the Government’s instruction that workers refusing to join the Communist call for a general strike must be protected, says the Associated Press’ correspondent in Rome.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22511, 15 December 1947, Page 5
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120STRIKE CALLED OFF Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22511, 15 December 1947, Page 5
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