TROOPS READY TO MOVE AGAINST STRIKERS.
Received Thursday, 12.35 a.m. PARIS, Oct. 20. French police and armed forces began at dawn today to elear the strikebonnd mines in Central and Eastern France after receiving orders from the Prefect of the Department to save the pits from fiooding. Thev met with no resistance from the strikers in most pits but in oue had to argue for two hours, with the leaders bet'ore the miners agreod to leave. A b'out 10,000 troops are stationed near St. Etienne, Central France, ready to move against hundreds of strikers who have barricaded themselves inside a number of pits. The British United Press correspondent says the paralvsis of vital pubiic services is spreading across Northern France. Many. cities and ' large towns are without gas or electricity. There is even the danger of disrnpted water supplies. There is a hospital at Lens where surgeons cannot carry on because of Jack of electricity and water supplies. the French Cabinet is meeting today to try to devise new measures to end the ' 17-dav-old stoppage in the mines. The new threat of sympathv strikes in some other great industries faces the Government.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 October 1948, Page 7
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