STRIKE GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19914, 17 June 1936, Page 7

STRIKE GENERAL

i TROUBLE IN BELGIUM. l CLASHES WITH THE POLICE. SEVERAL PEOPLE \VOUXDED. United Press Assn—Elem Tel. copyright. (Received June 17, 110 am.) BRUSSELS, June 16. The strike is general in the coalmining and steel industries. The strikers, in making an effort to prevent trains from running at Liege. repeatedly clashed with the police, who twice charged with drawn sabres. Three police were wounded by pistol shots. The affray occurred at Rooour, a suburb of Liege. Three police were seriously injured at Saint Walburge while resisting an attack by 200 miners. The municipality withdrew the trams following a threat by the strikers to set fire to them. ANXIETY OVER DEFENOE. PUBLIC SYMPATHY \VITH MEN. DEMAND FOR 40-HOUR WEEK. United Press Assn—Else. Tel. Copyright (Received June 17, l p.m.) BRUSSELS, June 16. The Belgian strikers have induced the Ardennes workers to quit the oil refinery. The standstill causes anxiety over the national defence supplies, since it is necessary that the daily quota of 11,— 000 tons should be reduced to 4000 ions. i LONDON, June 16’ , The Brussels correspondent of the ‘Times says the public generally sym—pathise with the strikers, especially the miners, who have suffered severely in the depression and the increased cost of living following the devaluation of the franc. Their aims are similar to those 0! the French strikers—namely, a ten per cent increase In wages, a [lo-hours week, and to be paid for annual holidays. The incident precipitating the strike was an employer fining a miner one—ili‘th of his day’s wages for a trivial oit‘ence. Twenty-one strikers have been orrcsted at Liege. STRIKE OF SHOEMAKERS. DEMAND PENSION 0F £SO. TROOPS \VOR-K PUBLIC UTILITIES. United Press Assn.--—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received June 17, 1 p.m.) LONDON, June 16. The Brussels correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that troops are working the electric supply services, and will also be drafted to other public utilities. Three thousand five hundred shoemakers struck at .\lons. They are demanding a pension of £SO annually at 00 years of age. The Ghent dockers are joining the strikers. . STRUGGLE IN PALESTINE. ‘ TREATY SIGNED IN 1919. 1 ALLEGED FALSE TRANSLATION. i _.__ ‘L'nited pm: Assn—Elec. Tel. Copyi'ig‘ht.‘ LONDON, June 16. The Jerusalem correspondent. of the News Chronicle says the propaganda in the struggle between the Arabs and the Jews has thrown up the name of the late Lawrence of Arabia, who is alleged to have mlstranslaie‘d for King Feisal an Arab~Jewish treaty signed in London in 1919 which was pub—lished recently. Dr. C. Weizmann, president of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, has produced a copy of the treaty as proof that Feisal strongly sympathised with the scheme for a Jewish national home in Palestine, but the Arabs declare that the document is a Jewish forgory. This is improbable, but it is suggested on photosiailc copie’s of the ireaiy' that Lawrence misiransiaied i the document because he realised that unless Feisal could he forced into gi\'« i ing the Jews ihc‘ir demands he could that fulfil his dream of a great Arab . Empire. i A Protective Footnote. i Faisal could not read English and ,addcd a protective footnote which ‘l.awrcncc translated on Dr. “'eizmann‘s copy and Feisni signed. This totaled: “it the Arabs arc estab—lished as I asked in n manifesto ad« dressed in the British Foreign Secre—tary, I will carry out this agreement.“ A photosiaiio (‘opy of l’cisal‘s Arahic shows that he wrote’: “Should the Arabs ohiain independence. etc.“ it is said that Lawrence. as a fault—lcss Arabic scholar, could not have fauliily translated the treaty. Accordingly. it is suggested ihat if he mellowed Feisal‘s footnote he almost certainly toned down the Zionist aspirations presented to Feisal. The .\foslem Council supports this \'li3\\'. declaring that when it was hin- ‘ ted that a treaty existed, Feisal telegraphed denyim: his signature. This telegram is now in the possession of lladi ch, a signatory or the treaty. at. present inicrncd in connection with the disorders.

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