LABOUR TROUBLES
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STRIKES IN PORTUGAL SPREADING TO THE CAPITAL. (Received Last Night, 5 o'clock.) LISBON, January 30. The farm labourers' strike led to a sympathetic strike of all trades in tihe Ei aria district, and a general strike in Lisbon. ANARCHISTS AT WORK. SHIPPING PARALYSED. (Received Last Night, 11 o'clock.) LISBON, January 30. When the strike began, anarcHsts took possession of the Trades Unionist headquarters at Lisbon, and incited the strikers to assassination and pillage. , The troops thereupon surrounded the headquarters, forbidding the entry of newspapers, and people appearing at shops and theatres. The Government <has taken measures to prevent a bread famine, and the soldiery are protecting the gas and the electricity plants. Two bomb explosions caused by the strikers have wrecked tramcars. The shipping on the river Tagus is paralysed. .
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10546, 31 January 1912, Page 5
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138LABOUR TROUBLES Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10546, 31 January 1912, Page 5
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