BARGEES STRIKE
BOLD MEASURES TO EFFECT SETTLEMENT. United Preas Association—Bv Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright PARIS. August 25. Directing a secretly concentrated force of 100 mounted police, 40 firemen, equipped with four motor pumps and two tugs, manned with blue jackets, the Prefect of the Seine-ot-Oisc. broke a barrage of three rows of barges at Conflans. A boarding party cut the cables linking 60 barges, which the tugs towed to the backwater. The bargees assisted the tugs on the Prefects promise to place the bargees* grievances before the Government. The Prefect now faces the problem of dispersing the main barrage at Eragno. where the strikers threaten to fill the barges with cement and sink them in the Oise.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19579, 28 August 1933, Page 7
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115BARGEES STRIKE Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19579, 28 August 1933, Page 7
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