GREEK WORKERS’ PROTEST
RECENT EMERGENCY LEGISLATION SHOOTING IN ATHENS ON EVE OF STRIKE (Rec. 7 p.m.) ATHENS, June 17. Shooting broke out in Constitution square, in Athens, on the eve of a 24 hours’ general strike called for tomorrow by the EAM-dominated General Confederation of Labour against the Greek Government’s recent emergency legislation for the restoration of law and order. Police clubbed a gathering at a corner of the square and chased the demonstrators into side streets. Workers stoned the police, who fired four shots into the air.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24905, 19 June 1946, Page 7
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88GREEK WORKERS’ PROTEST Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24905, 19 June 1946, Page 7
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