BARGEES ON STRIKE
FURTHER BLOCKADE IN FRANCE
, Ur l ted Press Association —Bv Electric
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PARIS, August 24
The bargee strikers against higher tariffs have now blocked ;the Aisne Canal at Berry-au-Bac, thus obstructing all traffic to and from Rheims. Naval tugs are patrolling the Seine. Nearly a thousand barges are idle in the Nord Department.
The . strike is preventing the delivery of over a quarter of a million tons of goods.
FURTHER BLOCKADES OCCUR
{Received this day at 11.55 a.m.) PARIS, Ahigust 24
The strike of the- b-'Vgee lS continues, and two hundred barges are now linked nineteen -deep, blocking the.Oise,.which is the main artery of the canal system in Northern France.
There i s and her b arrage at Bevryaubac, on the Aisne canal, which naval ratings broke when they threatened to use hoses as they did in the battl c on the .Seine yesterday.
'Military aeroplanes were used to photograph the bargees’ stronghold to enable the naval forces more readily to open the waterways.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1933, Page 5
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