LILLE WORKERS PROTEST
! FORCED RECRUITMENT UNPOPULAR PRISON FOR NINE STRIKERS London, Ocl. 15. Workers in Lyons, in unoccupied France, have come out on strike as a protest against M. Laval’s efforts to send them to Germany. Only last week tlie mayor of Lyons was arrested on Laval’s orders. • With a population of over half a million, Lyons is an important industrial and commercial centre.] Laval was recently informed by the Reich that compulsion would be used if 150,000 French workers did not volunteer for Germany by today. Now he has been publicly given another 1(3 days to try again. A list of 2900 skilled workers marked for compulsory deportation to Germany is being posted at Lyons to-day. Ten only had volunteered when 2000 were demanded. As a result of the strikes a military tribunal at Lyons sentenced nine people to terms of imprisonment ranging from a year to life, for endangering the security of the State. REPRISALS IN LUXEMBOURG The Luxembourg Government in London stated that the Germans shot 25 persons, including postmasters, teachers, professors, town clerks and workers when Luxembourgers proclaimed a general strike as a protest against annexation. —P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 16 October 1942, Page 5
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