MINERS IN REVOLT
FIVE BELGIAN COLLERIES. Striking miners seized and occupied five collieries in the Charleroi district, says a Brussels report. The red flag floats' over one of the mines. The strikers, \fho demanded a five per cent, increase in their wages, were ‘‘garrisoned” in the barricaded mine buildings, in which they carried on in a military manner. Sentries were posted, and strict discipline kept by elected chiefs. In one colliery the captured overseers wefe compelled to guard a building in which was stored 18 tons of dynamite. STRIKERS DRIVEN OUT. GAS BOMBS UTILISED. Using gas bombs, 200 gendarmes cleared the striking miners from the five collieries, which they had occupied in the Charleroi district, reports the Brussels correspondent of the News Chronicle. The strike involves 10,000 miners, and 26 collieries.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 158, 4 June 1935, Page 2
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131MINERS IN REVOLT Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 158, 4 June 1935, Page 2
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