1 STRIKE FEVER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 23 June 1936, Page 5

1 STRIKE FEVER

BARBED WIRE BARRICADES ERECTED IN STREETS OF BRUSSELS TROOPS GUARDING STRATEGIC POINTS (United Press Association—Ey Electric Telegraph—Copyright) BRUSSELS, 21st June. Barbed wire barricades are erected in the main roads to prevent strikers marching into the city. Troops occupied small towns within a ten mile radius and guard factories and strategic points. Thirty-one committees are debating terms for settling the various stoppages. Employers are declaring that the establishment of a forty-hour week is a drastic innovation for which the Government must take the responsibility. An emergency Cabinet meeting was informed that Antwerp, Ghent and Bruges dock workers are resuming immediately. IN FRANCE MORE EMPLOYEES RETURN TO WORK WAGES TO~BeInCREASED PARIS, 21st June. Department store strikes and the single-price bazaars’ dispute have been settled and agreements signed. Lafer wages are being increased 5 to 25 per cent. The stores are evacuated with the complete orderliness that characterised the entire strike. Staffs marched out from the stores with music and rejoicings, giving the Communist salute with upraised clenched fists. ■ DISTURBANCES IN THE SOUTH Threats from strikers in Marseilles and elsewhere resulted in the temporary closing of every hotel and restaurant. At Cannes some are barricaded and staffs are carrying on behind closed doors. All tramway and omnibus employees in the Riviera struck. Local industries at Nice are idle, though the street cleaners have resumed. Strike pickets halt all commercial vehicles. POLICE DEFIED In order to relight the flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe, 3000 members of the Right Wing marched down the Champs Elysees chanting the Marsellaise, and defying the police to disperse them. Mobile guards armed with rifles came to the police’s assistance. Scuffles resulted and twenty were arrested and several injured. A minor clash occurred between opposition news vendors outside Notre Dame de Lorette Church. BOMBS ATBARCELONA THROWN INTO STORES POLICE AND STRIKERS CLASH BARCELONA, 21st'June. Hand bombs attached to stones were thrown through the windows of twenty stores from moving vehicles. M. Catalan, the Home Secretary, fined storekeepers who failed to reopen their stores in accordance with Government orders. Two hundred were arrested. Police and strikers clashed at Rambla, a few heads being broken. A strike was declared at Lerida, affecting 100,000' regional workers.