Valenciennes, Dec. 2 Following many applications for re-employment, strikers in the Valenciennes region have been halved and now number about 10,000 men. Nevertheless, it is expected that it will be the middle of next week before the works end factories are in full operation.
Numerous workers' delegations are protesting against dismissals, which, it is feared, may provoke further strikes.
Twelve mobile guards put up a determined defence last night at the Sahut works, where they were pró- tecting 60 men ork, Twelve-hundred demonstrators marched to the works and stoned the guards, who held their ground and defended themselves with rifle butts. Reinforcements, led by the Sub-Prefect, subsequently relieved the hard-pressed squad.—Reuter.
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