Striking Miners Clash with Police in French Towns

Grey River Argus, 15 November 1948, Page 5

Striking Miners Clash with Police in French Towns

(N.Z.P.A. Reuter). PARIS. Nov. 13 Striking miners threw grenades at a train taking non-strikers from Bethune to Bruay in the northern French coalfields. The driver of the train was injured. Another act of sabotage was discovered on the line near Bethune, where the train was almost derailed by the removal of rail coupling bOltS. „ 1 T U The Communist-controlled Labour unions in Paris have called a 24-hour general strike for to-morrow as a protest against’ police violence in a battle with demonstrators near the tomb of the Unknown Soldier yesterd(Rec. 9.30.) PARIS, Nov. 14. A tear-gas grenade was thrown during a clash between strikers and the Republican Security Guards at Somain, near Douai. It injured a Communist deputy for the Nord Department, Arthur Ramette. According to the French News Agency, the clash occurred when striking miners staged a demonstration in spite of the local police can. An Agency report from Brassac-Les-Mines, in the Tarn Department of Southern France says that striking miners there kidnapped three police officers and the driver of thei-r patrol car when the policemen tried to disperse demonstrators in the town marketplace. Miners surrounded them in another vehicle and then ed them in another vehicles and drove off with them.