CASES OF SABOTAGE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1725, 16 April 1913, Page 7

CASES OF SABOTAGE.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ; (Eec. April 15, 11.45 p.m.) Brussels, April 15. It is 'estimated that there ff.ro 200,000 workers on strike, chiefly in factories and mines in the provinces of Ilainault and Namur. A few transport workers aro also taking part. Tho clerical newspapers state that tho strike is a fiasco, and that' littlo inconvenience has been experienced. Only 7000 out of 50,000 workers in Ghent struck, 13,000 out of 49,000 in Brussels, and only 78 out of 6500 employed at the Ghent Exhibition. Many miners have been saving for the strike, and do not expect help from tho union 9 for threo weeks. A case of sabotago occurrcd in a leather factory in Brussels, threo machines being damaged. Signal-wires were also cut in tho Laloutiere district.

NO INTOXICANTS: NO MEETINGS.

SOCIALIST EESOLVE. Brussels, April 14. The Sooialist leaders have resolved that during tho striko no intoxicants 6hall bo used and no meetings held. M. Vandervelde, tho well-known Socialist, has issued a manifesto. Ho predicts a victory; Ho has arranged with artists to give music matinees daily for tho amusement. Very many woTlcers seem to regret the i necessity for striking. The Weavers''! TJnion at Verviors, a town noted for its woollen yarn, has asked the permission of tho Employers'' Federation to strike. Tho federation replied that it was impossiblo to give permission. Maurico Maeterlinck has written severely criticising tho Catholic rulers. He offers the strikers money. M. Anatole France, tlio French author, also favours the strikers. Mr. Keir Hardic, M.P., leader of the British Independent Labour party, has written promising that no British coal will be shipped during the strike. Ho adds: "Tho valuo of a general striko may bo disputed on economic grounds, but it is of great value from a political standpoint. Tho proletariat of the wholo world is watching Belgium with interest." ' A striker at Courcelles shot a Catholic Don-striking workman. Four hundred thousand persons have struck. Business is in a chaotic condition. The public services are working normally. , There aro fifty thousand troops under arms. The telegraph wires have been cut in several places, and work at the coal mines has almost completely stopped. NO OVERTIME. Berlin, April 14. The Socialists in Westphalia urge the miners not to work overtime, lest the coal thus produced might bo sent to Belgium. . v ■ London, April 14. British trade -unions are apathetio regarding the Belgian, appeal for funds, because the strike is a political one.