TRAFFIC BLOCKED
angry TAXI drivers STRANGE SCENES IN VIENNA 111 VIENNA, Jan. 27 Taxi drivers in Vienna, resenting the increased petrol tax and the brutal measures of jihe police in seizing cars for default of payment, concentrated at the cross roads at St. Stephen's Cathedral and formed their cars into barricades, stopping the whole of the city s traffic at the busiest hours.
Troops were called out to enable the police to be released for street duty owing to this paralysis of the traffic. The troops 'fixed bayonets. There also arrived on the ecene armoured cars, which dragged the taxis off the main gtreets, practically ending the trouble.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21403, 30 January 1933, Page 8
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