PRUSSIAN FRANCHISE BILL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15256, 17 March 1910, Page 7

PRUSSIAN FRANCHISE BILL.

DEMONSTRATION BY KRUPP'S WORKMEN.

SERIOUS CONFLICTS WITH THE

POLICE. United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, March 16

Eighty per cent of tho workmen at Krupp's Gormania yard at Kiel struck for a half-holiday to protest against the Prussian Franchise Bill. Many workers in other yards joined them. Ten thousand men were out,- and came into violent collision with the police. The latter were hard pressed,' and took refuge in shops, the windows of which were smashed. ■ Ten demonstrators and several police wore injured.