Foreign News: A Strike

  • Share

A calamity of the most appalling magnitude threatens to oust even the French occupation in the Ruhr from the minds of the citizens. The sausage supply is gravely menaced by the strike of the livestock skinners in Berlin. Thirty-seven sausage and meat-canning factories are idle, and fear is expressed that the strike may lead to the closing of no less than 1,000 plants. A wage dispute is at the seat of the trouble.

Quotes of the Day »

DMITRY MEDVEDEV, Russian President, blaming nightclub managers in Perm, Russia for a fire that killed 109 people Saturday; the managers had refused to comply with fire safety standards despite repeated demands
For use in rail of Articles page or Section Fronts pages. Duplicate and change name as necesssary to distinguish.