BELGIAN STRIKES

Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1936, Page 5

BELGIAN STRIKES

RIOTS OCCUR CASUALTIES IN CLASHES. (.United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright), BRUSSELS, June 15. The newspaper Beige” estimates that the strikers number 178,000. The strike has extended to the metallurgical works in the Province of Hanault. :: The strikers attempted to stop trains at llocourt. Shots were fired, and three police were wounded. A clash occurred at Saint Malburge, .where' the Commissioner of Police and a gendarme were knocked down and trampled on. Mounted gendarmes charged 500 strikers in Liege, with sabres, after the strikers, singing the “Internationale,” twice attempted to storm a bazaar, under the leadership of a giant Communist, Deputy Lahaut, to prevent shop girls from working there.

SHOTS FIRED; SABRES DRAWN. POLICE IN UGLY SITUATION. (Received this day at 11.10 a.m.) BRUSSELS, June 16. The strike is general in the coalmining and steel industries: r > Strikers are' making an effort to prevent trams running to Liege, and repeatedly clashed with the police who twice charged with drawn . sabres. Three police were wounded by pistol shots. The affray occurred at Ilocour, a suburb of Liege. '? Three were seriously injured at Saint Walburge while resisting an attack ol 200. miners.

The municipality withdrew the trams following strikers’ threat to set fire to them . .