STRIKES ON CONTINENT
THE POSITION IMPROVED IN FRANCE (United Press Association—By Eleetrie Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 13th June, 2.30 p.m.) PARIS, 12th June. The Government declares that the strike situation has, improved. The strike in hotels and restaurants has been satisfactorily settled. Building trade strikers have been forbidden to parade and no assemblies are permitted. A race meeting at St. Cloud was cancelled owing to the track workers striking without awaiting the authorities’ reply to their demands. BRUSSELS, 12th June. “Stay-in” strikers occupied Belgium’s principal arms factory, the Fabrique Nationale, at Liege, the Government intervening to compel their evacuation. (Received 13th June, 2.30 p.m.) BERNE, 12th June.
Representatives of private motor owners and hauliers are organising to bring to a standstill all motor transport as a protest against the Federal decree increasing the price of petrol by compelling its adulteration with a large proportion of fruit alcohol, a product of a Federal alcohol monopoly unsaleable in the open market.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 13 June 1936, Page 13
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