STRIKES IN EUROPE

Wairarapa Age, 17 June 1936, Page 5

STRIKES IN EUROPE

TROUBLES EXTENDING IN BELGIUM. SERIOUS CLASHES IN SOME ABEAS. COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC ORDER CONSTITUTED. ' ■ BRUSSELS, une 15. The newspaper ‘‘ L ’lndependence Beige” estimates that the strikers number 170,000. '.At Liege mounted gendarmes charged 500 strikers with drawn sabres after .strikers singing the “Internationale” had twice attempted to Storm a bazaar under the leadership of a giant Communist deputy named Lahaut in order to prevent shop girls Working. A 1 clash occurred at Saint Walburge, where the commissioner of police and a gendarme were knocked down and trampled upon. Strikers attempted to stop the trains at Bocourt. Shots were fired and three police were wqunded. The strike has Extended tb the metallurgical works in the province of Hainault. A Committee of Public Order under the presidency of the Premier, M. Van Zeeland, has been constituted to deal with the strikes, which are rapidly extending. The coal strike, which involves 116,000 workers, has become general. Strikers stopped trams running to Liege. BETTER OUTLOOK. 1 ALL-ROUND IMPROVEMENT IN FRANCE. LONDON, June 15. The Paris correspondent of "The Times ’ ’ states that stay-in strikes have Virtually ended! The insurance ' clerks are expected to resume to-morrow, A majority of the department stores are still occupied, but the end is believed To be in sight. : The position in the provinces is improving with equal rapidity. Four thousand dockers and watermen are still idle in Paris, and those at Bordeaux and Dunkirk have not resumed.