TROOPS AND STRIKERS IN FATAL CLASH

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 81, 9 August 1929, Page 5

TROOPS AND STRIKERS IN FATAL CLASH

y TEN DEAD, U'. MANY WOUNDED

STRIKERS RUSH MINE HEAD.

COMMUNISTS TAKE PART (Received 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, August 8. The Times Bucharest corrspondent states that ten are dead and many as the result of a fight boRoumanain Oommunstrikers at.Lupens mines. The strikers seized and attempted to wreck the pithead machinery. Troops cha.gred \yith bayonets and opened tire. The fight lasted for ten minutes. The miners Jrecently submitted the dispute to arbitration and the court decided for the owners. A ■strike was then declared. Av tfpw hundred remained at the mines which the Reds rushed, seized the sheds and machinery, and stopped the mines which were plunged into darkness. Waiter poured into the galleries. Two companies of infantry and a company of gendarmes surrounded the mine, upon which the strikers attacked the gendarmes.—Time s Cable.