GENERAL STRIKE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 16 April 1913, Page 5

GENERAL STRIKE.

CABLE NEWS.

(United Freu Association—-By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

NO INTOXICANTS; NO MEETINGS VICTORY KO.R STRIKERS PREDICTED. (Received April 15, 8.30 a.m.) BRUSSELS, April 14. The Socialist leaders have resolved that during the strike no intoxicants shall be used and no meetings held. M. Yandervelde, the well-known Socialist, has i&iued a manifesto. He predicts a victory. He has arranged with artists to give music matinees daily for the strikers' amusement. Very many workers seem to regret the necessity for striking. The Weavers' Union at Verviers, i a to Win* noted for its woollen yarn, J has asked the permission of the Employers' Federation to strike. The Federation replied that it was impossible to give permission. Maurice Maeterlinck has written severely criticising the Catholic rulers. He offers the strikers money. M. Anatole France, the French author, also favours the strikers. Mr Keir Hardie, M.P., leader of the British Independent Labour Party, has written promising that no British coal will be shipped during the strike. He adds: "The value of a general strike may be disputed on economical grounds, but it is of great value from a political standpoint. The proletariat of the whole world is watching Belgium with interest." GERMAN SOCIALISTS' DECISION NO OVERTIME. (Received April 15, 8.30 a.m.) BERLIN, April 14, The Socialists in Westphalia urge the miners not to work overtime, lest the coal thus produced might be sent to Belgium.

BRITISH TRADE "UNIONS APATHETIC. FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND STRIKERS. (Received April 15, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 11. British trade unions are apathetic regarding the Belgian app?al for fvvndsj because the strife is a political one. Brussels, April U. Four hundred thousand persons have struck. Business is in ft chaotic condition. The public services are working normally. There are fifty thousand troops under arms. The telegraph wires have been cut in several places, and work at the coal mines has almost completely stopped. 200,000 MEN OUT. STATEMENT BY CLERICAL PRESS STRIKE A FIASCO. (Received Last Night. 11.45 o clock.) BRUSSELS. April 15. Jt- is estimated that 200,000 strikers • are "out," 'chiefly fVom_ factories and mines at Hainan It and Natnur. A .few transport workers are also partaking. The clerical newspapers state that the strike is a fiasco, and has caused little inconvenience, and any that 7000 out of 50,000 at Ghent have struck, and 13,000 out of 49,000 Brussels. Seventy-eight out- of 6500 are still employed at the Ghent Exhibition. Many miners have been saving, and do not expect the Union's h x lp f" three weeks. A case of rattening occurred m a leather factory at Brussels, three machines being damped. Signal wires have, been cut in the Salonviere district.