SPANISH CRISIS
GENERAL STRIKE SMASHED DRASTIC GOVERNMENT ACTION, BAYONETS FOR UNWILLING TRAMWAYMEN, (United Press Association— By O«M»Copyright.) (Received 7, 10.35 a.m.) Lisbon, June 6. Drastic Government action smashed a general strike called as « protest to the new two per cent, tax on wages and salaries. Troops fetched striking drivers and conductors from their homes ut the point of the bayonet and compelled them to operate the tramways. Sixty thousand loaves of bread were baked at the army cookhouse and the troops distributed them in order to defeat the bakers’ strike. Cavalry with drawn swords cleared the streets, one being killed and many wounded in the street fighting. A soldier was blown to pieces by an explosion at the power station. Although the strike is broken publie opinion may compel modification of the tax, which is used for unemployment relief, for which beggars ere eligible, resulting in a 50 per cent, increase in mendicants, who pester pedestrian* and invade shops and houses demanding alms.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 147, 7 June 1932, Page 7
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