INDUSTRIAL WAR.
AN UPHEAVAL IN LISBON. STATE OF ANARCHY. STRIKERS BLOW UP TRAMCARS. By TGissratiD —Prcs3 Assoftfaifnn—OoDyrich! (Rec. , January 30, 5 p.m.) Lisbon, January 29. A farm, labourers' strike .has.-led. to,a sympathefic r 'Vfrike of all''trades in 'the districtj and a general strike in Lisbon. (Rec. January 30, 11 p.m.) Lisbon, January 30. When the strike began, a band of Anarchists took possession of tho trades unionist headquarters at Lisbon, and incifed the strikers to assassination and pillage. The troops thereupon surrounded the headquarters, forbidding entry to them. The newspapers are not appearing, and shops and theatres are closed. The Government ha 3 taken measures to prevent a bread famine. The soldiery are protecting the gas and electricity plants. Two bomb explosions by the strikers have wrecked tramcars. Shipping on the Tagus is paralysed.
WORK RESUMED. Sydney, January 30. The Newnes strikers have resumed, pending a conference on the matters in dispute. LITHGOW STRIKERS DETERMINED. Sydney, January 30. The leaders of the Lithgow strikers announce that they will not resume work on the terms suggested by the arbitrator until they havo been starved into submission, but that this is unlikely in view of the continued jupport they are receiving.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1351, 31 January 1912, Page 5
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199INDUSTRIAL WAR. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1351, 31 January 1912, Page 5
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