LABOR COUP.
WORKERS SEIZE FACTORIES. SECURE COMPLETE CONTROL By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrlgnt, Received Sept. 1, 10.35 p.m. Rome, Sept. 31. Half a million metal workers at Lombardy have adopted a policy of obstruction at the. workshops instead of striking for increased wages. Large engineering works at Milan cmploying several thousand "locked out" the workers, and thereupon the Syndicalist Union ordered the workers Gi seize all the, workshops unless the owners agreed not to resort to a 'lock, out." ' Most of the owners refused, and the workers seized three hundred of the largest workshops, preventing the owners from removing paper.*? and : money from the safes. They cut. the telephones and placed guards over the clerical staffs, thus preventing' contact with the owners, The workers have a plentiful supply of foodstuffs, and are prepared to hold the workshops against a siege. The coup was carried out without personal violence,—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1920, Page 5
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148LABOR COUP. Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1920, Page 5
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