THE CHINA MAIL FEBRUARY 2, 1987.
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STRIKE RIOT
RIOT SHOOTING Wild Melee Outside Chevrolet Factory In U.S.
MOB STORMS BUILDING ON MISCHIEF BENT
SHOTS WERE FIRED IN AN OUTBREAK OF HOOLIGAN- ISM AT FLINT, MICHIGAN, YESTERDAY. AS AUTOMOBILE UNION WORKERS SPLIT INTO TWO FACTIONS.
The trouble occurred (says Reuter) at the Chevrolet factory, where 300 members of the Automobile Workers' Union were hold- ing a meeting.
Starting in an atmosphere charged with tension, passions flar- ed up and there were ugly scenes when the announcement was made that a Union member had been thrown out.
The pandemonium in the meeting
Fusze Proclaimed Communist
Shanghai, To-day.“
A reliable report from Tùng-
·kwan states that, notwithstand- ing the negotiations of the Nanking Government and Gen- eral Yang Hu-cheng, the com- munist leader, Mo Chal trong, has established a Chinese So- viet Government in Fusze Dis- trict in Shensi-Our Own Cor- respondent.
WILD WEATHER IN SPAIN
PUTS AN END TO FIGHTING
Paris, To-day. All reports from Spain, whe- ther from loyalist or rebel that military sources, agree operations at present are im-
LANDADIRANOG hall, where groups of men struggl- REDS POUR MEN possible.
2:
Anglo-Reich Naval Conversations
London, To-day.
Anglo-German naval discus-
sions, in continuation
of
Govern
a
series of conversations under- taken by the British ment with a view to securing bilateral agreements extending London the principles of the Naval Treaty, were resumed at the Foreign Office yesterday. - British Wireless.
FEYARLARINETTEKIBIRUBINGO
SLIDING SCALE FOR WAGES French Industrial Demands
Paris, To-day. Another variety of strike, has made its appearance in the indus- trial field.
ed with each other, was punctuat- ed by the firing of revolver shots, while hundreds of workers outside the factory smashed windows of the factory with clubs.
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LEGAL ACTION Meanwhile the legal action taken by the General Motors Corporation against those of its workers parti- ipating in the sit down strike has hung fire.
INTO SHENSI
SEEK TO RETAIN DOMINATION
REBELS AT SIXES AND SEVENS
Shanghai, To-day.
Weather conditions are terrible and even in trenches where the' opposing troops are but fifty me- tres apart, no activity is taking place.
Rebel leaders state that even when the weather improves several days will have to pass before oper- ations are possible.
INTERVENTION ISSUE.
Meanwhile the Valencia Govern- ment is concentrating large bodies of troops around Malaga, where the The Corporation had presented a
The uncertainty over settlement next rebel attack is expected. petition for an injunction to eject, the strikers from two of its fac- of the Shensi dispute has now be-Trans-Ocean- tories, alleging that the men are come more marked with increased no longer employed by the them but activity on the part of the Com- are wilful and malicious trespassers, munist forces in the northern part
of the province. DECISION DEFERRED After a four-hour hearing of the The Communists are moving ra-control were the main points of a petition the Judge in charge of the pidly and are pouring reinforce speech made by the head of the Va- case announced that he would dements into the province, threaten-lencia Government, Senor Largo fer his decision till to-day (Tues-ing the Government plans for paci-Cabellero, to-day. day).
The petition was filed by General Motors last Thursday but the Court gave the Union till to-day to show cause why the injunction should not be granted-Renter.
CHATER ROAD PARKING
Mr. Ellis "Protests"
Valencia, To-day. Non-intervention and foreign
Senor Cabellero was speaking at fication which have already been delayed by renewed recalcitrance a meeting of the Spanish Parlia- on the part of a section of the re- ment, at which about 100 deputies
were present.
bels.
The flooding of the northern dis- tricts with Red troops is an effort to consolidate the Communist grip on the territory to the north of the Wei River.
He declared that the Valencia Government accepted in principle the supervision plan, "which of course would have to be confined to the territory held by the in- surgents."
The invaders have already de
Moreover, the Valencia Govern- clared the formation of a bogus government at Fushib, while Bed ment had the indisputable right, agents at the same time are con-which was the prerogative of every tinuing their attempt to stiffen the legally formed Government, to buy resistance of the rebels at Sianfu. arms.
The rebels themselves appear to
ULTIMATE VICTORY
Known as a "currency strike." it! has been scheduled for to-day, when most of the workers in Paris will leave their work five minutes before. closing time as a protest against the delay in the 15 per cent. raise in wages demanded to cover the Mrs. Anges Tobias, J. Huber, of Messrs Siemens (China) Co. and N. increased cost of living.
The workers also demand that a S. Ellis, of the Asiatic Petroleum be at sixes and sevens, some con- The Premier voiced the belief sliding scale of wages, based on the Company, each were fined $5 at the tinuing their withdrawal in accor-that nobody in other countries any Central Magistracy for causing an dance with the agreement with longer doubted the ultimate victory fluctuation in the cost of living, be obstruction by leaving their cars Nanking and others sticking to of the Government, and demanded enforcedTrans-Ocean.
in Chater Road.
their posts-Reuter.
that this confidence should not re- main undeserved.
REAL WAR TEST OF MODERN AIRCRAFT
The first test
Berlin, To-day.
Mr. Ellis said that there were.
no signs prohibiting the parking of in the area and he had never been cars. He had seen numerous cars told by them that parking was not parked on the road. There were allowed but had been assisted on Automobile Association "scouts" occasions.
under war-time NO ENCROACHMENTS
conditions of various makes of European fighting planes is dis- cussed in an article published by the "Berliner Tageblatt" to day from its correspondent in Spain.
IN MOROCCO
"The aim of one and all must be to win the war,” he concluded. Spain was not passing through civil war but was suffering from inva sion, which meant that the Gov- ernment was fighting for the free- dom of the country.
A vote of confidence in the Gov- ernment was passed at the end of the session-Trans-Ocean.
BORCHGRAVE INCIDENT
Brussels, To-day.
Borch-
London, To-day. (would be more welcome than parti- The correspondent declares that
Germany had in no way violated cipation by Germany. from his own observation of aerial the Moroccan Treaties, declared
The murder of Baron de Mr. Eder went to announce warfare along the Escorial front, the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony the Soviet pursuit planes used by Eden, in the House of Commons that the League Council had con- grave in Madrid again came up vened a session of the Disarma- for discussion at a meeting of the the Madrid Government are "fast yesterday... and exceedingly deadly."
Mr. Eden, who made the statement Conference for May 6, Cabinet in Brussels yesterday, when The loyalist aviators, he states, ment in reply to a question from The Foreign Secretary, question the Foreign Minister, M. Spaak, have recently been supplied with a the Labour opposition stated that ed on the Government attitude to presented his report
M. Spaak has just conferred with new type of pursuit plane.the British Government had car-the last German and Italian Notes
These planes, the correspondent ried out a thorough investigation on voluneering in Spain, remarked a representative of the Madrid that the answers were being Government at St. Quentin, în writes, can attain a speed of 450 of the situation in Morocco. kilometres an hour. Trans-Ocean. Answering another Labour query examined by the non-intervention France.
Political circles state that the mat- whether Germany, now that she is committee.
He stated, however, that it would ter has been settled satisfactorily will be The JCIL 88. Tisadane had admitted to be in full possession of a large passenger list when she left full equality of status, would be give great satisfaction if the em-but no official statement
rrow, when the Bel- for Manila yesterday, including invited by the British Governmen bargo on volunteers and the con-made till to many pilgrims the Eucharistic to join deliberations on disarma- frol plan were put into operation asgian Senate
Trans-Ocean. Ocean. Congress.
ment, Mr. Eden stated that nothing soon as poss
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