Troops With Machine-guns Watch Strike In Belgium.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 163, 22 June 1936, Page 6

Troops With Machine-guns Watch Strike In Belgium.

Brussels, June 21. 'Troops with machine-guns and bai'bed wire are in position a't numerous xStiitits fhrougho'ut Belgium, but the Minister of the Interior reports calmness everywhere. the strike of Antwerp dockers, which started the epidemic, was settled after a com'p'ro'mise on ! the minimum wage on the intervention of M. van Zeeland. Employers and workers in the principal industries, including coal mines, have agi'eed oh an increased minimum wage, six days' paid 'holiday and freedom to -form trade unions. It is expected that workers will resume after the week-end. The' institution of a 44-hour week was left to the Government's initiative ''■■■■■ '■' . • • The strike in East Flanders has spfead i,p the motor transport, food, building and chemical industries.