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BREAkiNG A STRIKE WORKERS BROUGHT BACK AT THE BAYONET POINT DRASTIC BUT EFFECTIVE
-By Telegraph — Copyright),
. . LISBON, Tuesday. Drastic Government action • smashed- the general 'strike call'ed as a protest to the new 2 per eent. tax on wages and salaries. • Troops fetched the striking drivers j and conductors from their homes at | the, point of^the bayonet, and compelled them to operate the tramways. • They haked >60,000 loaves of hread at the army cookhouse and distributed them, in order to defeat the hakers' strike. - Cavalry with drawn ewords cleared the streets. One was killed and many wounded in the street fighting. A soldier was blown to pieces in an -explosiori at a poWer station. Although the strike has been hroken public opinion may eompel a modification of the tax, which was used for unemployment relief, for which beg- , gars are eligible, resulting in a 50 per cent- increase in mendicants, who pester pedestrians and invade shops and houses, demanding alms.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 246, 8 June 1932, Page 5
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