LISBON STRIKE RIOT.
TROOPS FIRE ON CITY MOB.
By Tolegraph-Press Association-Copyright. (Rec. June 23, 5.5 p.m.) Lisbon, June 22. The situation in connection with tho tramway strike, is becoming increasingly «erious. Many attacks have beeu made on tho workers, who included a number of English mechanics brought from a passing steamer to overhaul tho electric machinery."'
The strike is due to a dislike of foreign companies. The Government has arrested the tenders. ■
The first trams ran in the evening, escorted by troops. Threo bombs were thrown among the crowd in Dom Pedro Square. .Two porsons wore injured, one i of them fatally.
A force of cavalry dispersed the mob, after shots had been exchanged, and several people wounded.
The tramway company is reinstating as many of tho strikers as possible.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1474, 24 June 1912, Page 5
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130LISBON STRIKE RIOT. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1474, 24 June 1912, Page 5
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