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Belgian Workers in Action Against Antistrike Law

The Internationalist No. 8, 4 April 1963 · p 12 · 164 words

BELGIAN WORKERS IN ACTION ACGATUST ANTISTRIKE LAW

BRUSSELS, April 3 —- To give a dramatic demonstration of their views on the antistrike legislation now under consideration ia Pariiament, Delgian workers began turning this week to direct actioa.

Doy before yesterday a wild-cat strike involving 10,000 workers: broke out at the big electrical equipment plant of ACEC at Charierci.

Yesterday wild-cat strikes of tramway workers snarled up -Charlerot?> public transportation systen.

Today more than 50,000 workers in Liege staged a two-hour general strike. They met in three separate mass meetings to hear union spokesmen denounce the projected antistrike Law»

On April 6 an emergency congress of the Socialist party wiil decide what way the Socialist liembers of Parliament should vote on the pending bills. The work stoppages are intended to help stiffen. resistance against the laws and weaken the pressure of those seeking to. put. them on the books. .

(vor a background account of this struggle see the March 6 Internationalist.) - if 7

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