RUMANIAN STRIKE
yi ' FIGHT BETWEEN TROOPS AND \ STRIKERS. (Times Service). (Reoaved this day at 8.30. a.m.) LONDON, August 8. The “ Times ” Bucharest correspondent states ten are dead and many wounded as the result of a fight between Rumanian troops and Communist'strikers at Lupens mines. 1 The latter seized and attempted to wreck' the pithead machinery. •’ The troops charged with the bayonet and opened fire. The fight lasted 10 minutes.
The miners recently submitted a dispute to arbitration and the court decided for the owners.
A strike was then declared. A few hundred remained at the mines which the Reds rushed and seized the sheds. The. machinery was stopped and the mines plunged into darkness.' Water poured into the galleries. Two companies of infantry and a company of gendarmes surrounded the mine. The strikers attacked the gendarmes.
(The cable news in this issue accredited to “The Times” has appeared in that journal, but only where expressly stated is such news the editorial opinion of “The Times.”)
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1929, Page 5
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