All mines in the Valenciennes region were requisitioned today by the Minister of Labour, who was given power to do so in an official degree published this morning. Five-thousand miners returned to work, All miners of the Danzin Company, near Denain, were ordered this morning to return to work, failing which they would have to appear before a military tribunal on a charge of rebellion. As a result, the total number of strikers was reduced to about 1,000, and these agreed to return to work on November 28, provided no disciplinary action was taken.
The strike movement spread to the metal workers in the north of France, but guards were mobilized and all engineering factories were occupied, totalling 70.
Four demonstrators, out of thousands pho occupied the Renault were sentenced to ten days' imprisonment and fined Frs. 95, on a charge of rebellion. Altogether 282 demonstrators were arrested, but only four chose a summary trial
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