A STRIKE IN FRANCE.
United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.
Paris, April 13
Daring a strike *of 13,000 button makers at Meru (France), demanding & nniform ■wage, 600 of the strikers attacked and wrecked two factories and stormed the manuatoturers’ •dwellinghonse. The owner, his wife and servants fled in their nightdresses by the back door. Next morning 200 Dragoons bad serious conflicts with the strikers, .several of the troops being woupded. A thousand Cavalry have been sent to Mem.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9417, 13 April 1909, Page 5
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78A STRIKE IN FRANCE. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9417, 13 April 1909, Page 5
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