Strikers And Police In Farm Gun Battle
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Reeeived Tuesday, 7 p-m. 1 ROME, June 14. Police and j Carabinieri last night fought a gun battle against 2000 styik ing'farm labourers who had surrounded a farm at Creva'lcore in Bologna Pro vince. The strikers, armed wit'h hunting rifles, had attackqd 20 non-strikers' who were working '' in the flelds and besieged them when they retreated to the farmhouse. When the police arrived the strikers were eaught between flre ' frbnk both si'des. • Bleven persons were itLjured"bef0ire :the attackers fled The* polidd aCrrestefF 48.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 June 1949, Page 7
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