BROKERS ON STRIKE
PARIS BOURSE CLOSED SALES TAX NOT APPROVED PARIS, Jan. 25 Brokers have refused to transact business as a protest against the sales tax proposed by M. Chcron, Minister of Finance, as a means of balancing the Budget. The authorities consequently decided Lo close the Bourse for the day. A great increase of unemployment is expected if the brokers' strike continues. It was carried out with the utmost good humour. When 40 portly stockbrokers tried to initiate market orders they were not registered on the indicator, as the strikers had cut the electric wires. From then on the hall was a Babel of chatter and laughter, a few " stink bombs " adding to the confusion. The Government threatens to prosecute the brokers concerned on the ground that uny demonstration against the freedom of Parliamentary discussion cannot be allowed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21401, 27 January 1933, Page 9
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139BROKERS ON STRIKE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21401, 27 January 1933, Page 9
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