BELGIAN STRIKE
LABOUR PARTIES’ STRONG ORGANISATION. (Received February 19, 0.5 a.m.) BRUSSELS, February 18. The date for the general strike coincides with that of the Ghent exhibition. The Labour parties’ organisation aims at lasting for months. The housewives have made strong provisions. Prices aro rising rapidly. Tho Government is opposed to any attempt to arrange a compromise, and say that the threat of a strike would become a species of permanent blackmail if a compromise were suggested.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8358, 19 February 1913, Page 7
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77BELGIAN STRIKE New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8358, 19 February 1913, Page 7
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