GENERAL STRIKE ORDERED
IN BELGIUM. ' By Telegf&ph. -Press Association.— Copyright (Received February 13, 11 a.m.) BRUSSELS, 12th Februar-y. The National General Strike Council has summoned the workers to strike on the 14th inst. tLast week the Belgian Chamber of Deputies, by 100 votes to 83, rejected the Universal Suffrage Bill. M. Vandervelde'then intimated that Hie Socialists would order a general strike. The Socialists have been organising for a strike of every kind of labour, by which they hope to secure universal suffrage pure and simple, as against the present plural vote, which gives the upper classe* a great advantage over the lower.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 37, 13 February 1913, Page 7
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