PORTUGAL STRIKE
SMASHED BY TROOPS.
DRASTIC ACTOIN
1 United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
! LISBON, June 6. Drastic Government action smashed a general six-ike, called as a protest to the new two per cent tax on wages and salaries. Troops fetched the striking drivers and conductors from ’ their homes at the point of’ the bayonet and compelled them to operate the tram-
ways. . The troops baked sixty thousand loaves of bread at the AinUy cookhouse and distributed them in order to defeat the bakers’ strike.
Cavalry with drawn swords cleared the streets. One person was killecf and many wounded in the street fighting.
A soldier was blown to pieces by an explosion at the power station.
Although the strike was broken, public opinion may compel a modification of the tax, which is used for unemployment relief, for which beggars are .eligible,. resulting in a fifty per cent, increase in mendicants who pester pedestrians, and invade shops and:houses demanding alms.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1932, Page 5
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