'sixty-Five Thousand Idie:
Crowd Fired On Bombay, Apr. 20.
The strike situation in the Bombay cotton mills has become worse, consequence of the strikers succeeding in calling out other workes. Twenty cotton-mills are 20% idle and 40,000 persons are on strike.
Apr. 21.
There are now 22 mills not working.
Rowdy strikers to-day demon. strated' in front of mills which are. working. Several clashes between strikers and police occurred, Eight strikers were arrested, The Commissioner of Police has prohibited processions and meetings. of strikers.
Disorderly Crowd Fired On Apr. 23.
There are now 65,000 strikers in the mill area, Only five mills are working.
taken place in the Parel mill dis-Police reported to have trict, It appears that thousands of strikers started throwing stones in front of the mills. The police tunable to control the crowds the superintendent fired his revolver at the demonstrators, killing one and wounding one.
Apr. 24.
The strike of cotton mill workers has further extended, There are now 117,000 operatives out and production has ceased except in the case of a few mills in the outlying districts.
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