STRIKES IN PORTUGAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 31 January 1912, Page 5

STRIKES IN PORTUGAL.

GENERAL TRADE UPHEAVAL

BUSINESS PARALYSED

Ny CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LISBON, Jan. ,30. A farm laborers' strike led to a sympathetic strike of all trades .in the HiYora district.and a general strike in Lisbon.' ■ When the strike began a band of anarchists took possession of the trades unionist headquarters in Lisbon and incited strikers to assassination and'pillage. The troops thereupon, surrounded the headquarters, forbidding «ntry. The newspapers are not appearing, and shops and theatres are closed. \ The tiovernment has taken measures to prevent a bread famine. '*. Soldiery are protecting gas and electric plants. There wer.e two bomb explosions. The strikers wrecked the tram cars. Shipping on the Tagus is paralysed.