60,000 BELGIANS IN FRANCE ON STRIKE
(11.30 a.m.) PARIS, Dec. 13. Sixty thousand Belgian workers employed in France have struck as a protest against a French Government order forbidding them to take more than half their earnings in francs back to Belgium. Belgian pickets guarded the border to stop strike breakers crossing. The Belgians are employed mainly in French textile, steel and building enterprises. The French Government offered them in compensation permission to buy whatever food they wanted in France and to take it into Belgium, but the Belgian Government refused this offer.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22819, 14 December 1948, Page 5
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9360,000 BELGIANS IN FRANCE ON STRIKE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22819, 14 December 1948, Page 5
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