FIERCE FIGHT AT MINES
TEN RUMANIANS KILLED, MANY WOUNDED TROOPS USE BAYONETS (Times Cable) Reed. 9 a.m. LONDON, Thursday. The Bukarest correspondent of “The Times” states that 10 are dead and many wounded as a result of a fight between Rumanian troops, Communists, and strikers at the Lupens mines. The strikers seized and attempted to wreck pithead machinery. The troops charged with their bayonets, and opened fire. The fight lasted 10 minutes. The miners recently submitted the dispute to arbitration, and the court decided for the owners. A strike was then declared. A few hundred workers remained at the mines, on which the Reds rushed and seized the sheds. The machinery was stopped and the mines were plunged into darkness. Water poured into the galleries. Two companies of infantry and a company of gendarmes surrounded the mine. The strikers attacked the gendarmes.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 737, 9 August 1929, Page 9
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