POLICE AND STRIKERS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 168, 17 June 1936, Page 11

POLICE AND STRIKERS.

CLASH IN BELGIUM. SABRES AND PISTOLS USED. Received July 17, 10.50 a.m. BRUSSELS, June 16. The strike is general in the coalmining and steel industries. The strikers, in making an effort to prevent trams from running at Liege, repeatedly clashed with the police, who twice charged them with drawn sabres. Three of the police were wounded by pistol shots in an affray which occurred at Rocour, a suburb of Liege. Three persons were seriously injured at St. Walburge while resisting an attack by 200 miners. The municipality withdrew the trams following the strikers’ threats to set fire to them. DEFENCE SUPPLIES JEOPARDISED. The strikers have induced the Ardennes workers, to .quit the oii refinery there. The standstill causes'anxiety over the national defence supplies, since the necessary . daily quota of 11,000 tons has been reduced to 4000. THE FRENCH STRIKES. VESSELS HELD UP. INDUSTRIES AT STANDSTILL. Received June 17, 12.10 p.m. PARIS, June. .16. Sixteen vessels are held up in the harbour a.t Nantes, where 15,000 have ceased work. Department 6tores are closed, the building industry is at a standstill and the petrol refineries have stopped working, while department store and slaughterhouse workers at Lyons are still idle; AGITATION IN'MOROCCO. ARABS ARRESTED. Received June 17. 1.20 p.m. ALGIERS, June 16. Farmers are appealing for protection against hands of Arabs who arc roaming the countryside, forcing labourers to cease work and damaging farms and livestock. Many ol' these agitators have been arrested. MOVEMENT GROWING. Received June 17, 1.20 p.m. CASABLANCA, June 16. The strike movement is growing in Morocco. The building trade workers at Casablanca have occupied seventy building yards. The metallurgical industry also is affected.