DISTURBED POATUGAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 January 1911, Page 3

DISTURBED POATUGAL.

STRIKES ON THE li A! L\Y A \ N! . IS THI3 GOVERNMENT INTIMIDATED? [BY KLECTltl'i TELKGRAI'H—COPYHIGIIT.] I l'Klt I'll ESS ASSOCIATION.] LISBON, January 15. Tho Portuguese railway companies -offer tho-strikers increased wages to ■fcli© ox to lit of £30,00 annually, <x nine .hours day, and freo pases on tho railways for all employees and/their families. Tt is explained that the dividends paid bv tho companies now are less ■tiliaii itihey were twenty years ago, debenture holders receiving only a portion of interest. Tho strikers insist on their full demands. They are now in possession of the managerial executive offices and have appropriated books and documents. Tho Government refuses military assistance to enable the companies to regain possession of their offices. Tho strikers continue orderly. (Chronicle Nolo : In connection with this strike it is interesting to note tint the leaders have officially decimal thai! there will be no •''sabotage.'' In tho recent railway strikes in Franco "sabotage" was practised, and it is tho policy of the Confederation Genomic du Travail, which, it is understood, engineered that strike, to foment and prolong industrial disputes and to seduce the army from its allegiance to the State. It. therefore, seems, orovided the men are kept within hounds, that 'the dispute niav be pacifically settled. "What is meant by ''sabotage" in raihvav deputes is acts of 'wanton nii-Hiiof inflicted on tho railway or t -Vrn -vh lines. .Tn fact, a man forced under the Confederation Generalo du Travail to inflict injury on his employer's, roods, nrnl fn p;onerallv disere'lit him as a Tiryt.ical hti«ine?-s man').