EXPLOSIONS IN ROME
Nation-wide Strike Begins
Rec. 0.5 a.m. ROME, Mar. 22. Three heavy explosions rocked Rome this morning as the Communist-led General Labour Confederation went into action against the Government with a nation-wide strike call. A home-made bomb of TNT wrapped in a newspaper wrecked the district party offices of the Christian Democrats. A few minutes later an explosion shattered the district office of the Communist Party in Rome and a third bomb exploded on a bridge near Vatican City. Armed police in jeeps patrolled the streets of all the main Italian cities from dawn today. The strike, which is planned to last 12 hours from 6 a.m. today, was called as a protest against the new Government measures for the “ suppression of disorder.”
Condemning the measures as a “ tyrannous attack on civil liberties,” the Labour Confederation last night ordered the strike by all workers except those on the railways and in the gas, light, health, and water supply services.
Three non-Communist trade union federations, representing 1,600,000 workers, refused to join the strike, declaring that the Labour Confederation's aim was “ subversive.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27346, 23 March 1950, Page 7
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