CLASHES IN FRANCE
STRIKERS AND BEET GROWERS A NUMBER OF CASUALTIES CHARTRES, Oct. 16. (Received Oct. 18, at 5.5 p.m.) One person was killed and 30 injured in clashes between beet growers and sugar factory workers after a strike of 900 sugar men. Fifteen hundred farmers assembled at the Town Hall to hear a speech from the Prefect, when a procession of strikers, carrying red flags, revolvers and other weapons, approached. In the ensuing clash one farmer was shot dead and another seriously injured and sent to hospital.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23015, 19 October 1936, Page 9
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88CLASHES IN FRANCE Otago Daily Times, Issue 23015, 19 October 1936, Page 9
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