STRIKE IN FRANCE.
CABLE NEWS.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright,
FACTORIES WRECKED. DRAGOONS AND STRIKERS IN CONFLICT. Received April 12, 10.5 p.m. PARIS, April 12. During a strike of 12,000 buttonmakers at Meru demanding a uniform wage 600 of the strikers attacked and wrecked two factories and stormed a manufacturer's dwelling house. The owner, his wife and servants fled in their night-clothes out through the back door Next morning 200 dragoons had serious conflicts with the strikers, and several of the troops were wounded.
A thousand cavalry have been sent to Meru.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3161, 13 April 1909, Page 5
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93STRIKE IN FRANCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3161, 13 April 1909, Page 5
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