STRIKE RIOTS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1931, Page 5

STRIKE RIOTS

IN BARCELONA. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copy rig lit .J) MADRID, September 3. At Barcelona, at least eight were killed, and many have been injured in a general strike. This strike is paralysing the city. All the shops are closed. The newspapers are not being published. The iloops are confined to the barracks. T'uo telephone and telegraph lines have been cut. The post office, bank!*; 1 and Government bui.dings are guarded by machine guns. l Tne police are equipped with rifles. The general strike was declared as a protest against the drastic suppression or the mutiny m the gaol that was cabled yesterday. Cavalry dispersed a crowd of angry strikers, firing on one mob which was prowling in the streets.

ROYAL PROPERTY. ITS CONFISCATION URGED. MADRID, September 3. A Parliamentary Commission has recommended the Chamber to take proceedings in default against ex-Kang Alfonso on a charge of unconstitutional 'acts before the Republic was formed i i The Commission also recommends the immediate confiscation of all the royal property. DECLARED OFF. WOMEN TAKE A HAND. (Received this day at 9.25 a.ml , BARCELONA, -September 4. The strike was suddenly called off. A general barking of guns during the day was heard throughout the city, police and strikers firing promiscuously at anyone appearing in the main streets. Goaded to fury by the constant succession of acts of terrorism which paralysed the city during the year, the strikers’ wives determined to strike themselves against their husbands, declaring they would provide no further meals for those refusing to return to work.