MORE STRIKES
OTHER INDUSTRIES AFFECTED BELGIAN SITUATION WORSE (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 2.30 p.m.) .. | - BRUSSELS, June 17. The Belgian strikes are nearing the capitol. Five hundred metallurgical employees in the suburb of Rucsbroeck are ceasing. The authorities announce that foreigners participating in the agitations will be expelled. Liege resembles a beleaguered city. The tram and taxi services have stopped, and the use of bicycles has beef), prohibited in order to frustrate the speedy assemblage of strikers. Twelve thousand textile workers of Ghent quitted their looms. Factories in the Venders area are stopping, anct
heavy industries in Charleroi have been brought to a standstill. At Casablance the' 1 sugar workers have resumed, but the metal workers and paint workers are idle.
FRENCH SITUATION WORSE BILLS PASSED IN SENATE (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.l . J PARIS, June 17. . The Senate has passed bills permitting indemnity to civil servants, exempting ex servicemen’s pensions, ii.om taxation, and' grantinguftidj holidays to workers. . f . ; Metropolitan strikers are;, stj.ll. end number -fifty'to 'sixtV ’tHo^ud^. The situation is no better Marseilles, ail i worse at Lyops, Sb-j tharr.bn, Angers, La Rochelle, end Lb Havre.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1936, Page 6
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