GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12876, 1 June 1936, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

RIOT IN SPAIN < U. I. A. by Klee. 'i'ol. Copyrjgnx). (Received May 31, 5.5 p.m.) MADRID, May 31. In a battle between the Civil Guards and R:ds at Ycsto in Albnctete Province. 23 peasants and one Civil Guard were killed and 50 combatants wounded. Two Guards are expected to die. The clash was due to- tilie peasants’ so'zurr- of the property of a. landowner, Edmund Alfaro. an ex-member of the Cortes They uprooted -sixty pine trees and began to cult irate the land. Th? police arrested 14 and were escorting them to the provincial capital, when fellow villagers armed with firomalrs and farming implements attempted to -rescue them. The disturbance has not yet been, quelled. Storm Guards and a Red Cross ambulance have been despatched to Yes to.

FRANCE’S “STAY-IN” STRIKE

(U.F.A. by Eh?c. Tel. Copyright). ('Reecived May 31. II p.m.) PARIS, May 31. The Dally Telegraph’s Paris correspondent says that despite the Renault settlement there are -still 30,000 workers “‘occupying” factories in Paris area alone, and 40,000 elsewhere. Gates and windows are festooned with red flags. Tiring of cards, dice and drimine playing, some of the workers are organising' ping-pong tournaments, and others are waltzing round the machine shops to the -strains of accordions. The employers are consisting that, the factories be evacuated and work resumed before negotiations are; commenced,i pointing out that the now “staying in” strike movement is a very grave devblopment, infringing the elementary rules of ‘order’And discipline.