STRIKE IN BELGIUM
CHASSEUR KILLED. BRUSSELS, April 22. Two drunken soldiers, who had sixty cartridges each, deserted and ran about the streets of Forchies la Marche, where they kept up shooting for hours, shouting “ Long live the strike.’’ They killed a chasseur and then escaped in the woods. M. Vandervelde. in the Chamber of Deputies, accepted the Government’s olive branch, holding out a prospect of some measure of electoral reform. It is expected that the strike will end. April 23. The General Strike Committee recommends a resumption of work April 24. The Socialist Congress, by a three--fourths majority, favoured an immediate resumption of work. April 26. The strikers in certain districts protest against the resumption of work on the ground that a positive result has not been achieved. Numerous miners are taking advantage of the situation to claim increased wages.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3085, 30 April 1913, Page 25
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140STRIKE IN BELGIUM Otago Witness, Issue 3085, 30 April 1913, Page 25
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