BELGIAN STRIKE SPREADING.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12790, 15 June 1912, Page 4 (Supplement)

BELGIAN STRIKE SPREADING.

LIEGE LIKE' BELEATJGURED CIT\ r BRUSSELS, June 7.. Tho strike movement that started as a. result, of the late riots, is spreading throughout the Liege basin, where nearly, all the collieries: and metal industries have been throv/n idle. Liege itself has' the appearance of a city •m a state of siege, two regiments of infantry besides gendarmes, the police, and the Civic Guard, being kept- under arms day and night. ; ' , ' Publio opnion is ' being exerted to arrest the wave of sanguinary rioting and the destruction of •property and; sacking bf churches by which the out-; breaks of the last few days have been marked. „ > All the newspapers unite m urgingthe people to abstain from, vidlenoe. If no general strike is called/it is believed that the disorders will gradually die bujt. One of the leading dailies, the Independence Beige," says that the Belgium, to safeguard her national unity, must meet the problem, of the Walloon provinces, where the majority of the population is wearied of being; governed by the Clerical majority of the Flemish provinces. The council of the Labor Party has decided against; an immediate general strike, notwithstanding, -the protests of the delegates from the Walloon provinces, who desired an industrial upbeaval brought about at once. The council,, however j will take action next month m the event of tlie Government refusing to consider a measure that the Socialists have introduced, for the revision of the Constitution. ( ' '■■ . Although no general cessation of work has been ordered further strikes have Ui ken place, and acts of violence are of hourly occurrence, despite the appeal issued by the Socialists and the Liberals to their followers to refrain from perpetrating any excesses.