STRIKERS FIRE UPON WOMEN.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12749, 22 March 1910, Page 2

STRIKERS FIRE UPON WOMEN.

; SERIOUS RIOTS IN FRANCE. SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED. (Received March 21, 9.30 p.m.) Paris, March 21. Two hundred strikers in a paper factory at Clichy, Franco, infuriated by the refusal of fifty of their comrades, chiefly women and girls, to cease work lay in wait until dark, and then fim[ •a volley of revolver shots. The non-strikers took rofugo in a cafe, which the strikers bombarded with revolvers and stones until the police arrived. Several women and two policemen were wounded. Their assailants extinguished the street lamps, and thereby escaped. Women were chiefly responsible for the attack, and treated tho nonstrikers with savage violence. A series of similar murderous attacks were made upon non-strikers in various provincial districts during tho week.