Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-04-12 | Page 1 | Belgium to Lose $800,000 a Day in Great Strike

BELGIUM TO LOSE A DAY IN GREAT STRIKE Fifty Per Cent of Industrial La borers Expected to Quit Work Monday RUSSELS April rn 11 Belgium Belgium stands B BRUSSELS to lose every day Ia the he general general gen gen- eral oral strike lasts If It if a as the time soel socialists lIsts declare leclare and hope 50 per cent of the Industrial laborers quit work nc next t Mon Monday a This Is the estimate made b by economists i Full Fun realization of or the tho tremendous economic blow n Impending is beginning to p permeate all aU sections of ot the thc population population population tion and a a. feeling of ot great uneasiness prevails The Tho government and local authorities are arc re completing ting ting- final preparations preparations preparations prep prep- to meet emergencies According to latest latent reports from la labor Ia- Ia bor centers the walkout will 1 be complete com corn among miners metal workers quarry men and textile workers Th The decision of the glass workers to I join the strike has produced something like consternation Ever Every furnace that thatIs Is permitted to die down must be de destroyed destroyed de- de with d dynamite and rebuilt This would Involve a total cost of There are arc twenty seven furnaces in Belgium the window glass exportation exportation exportation tion from which amounts to a n month As s to the blast furnaces a majority of or which will be allowed to cool of off their their- extinction will mean a a. 10 loss M of or OOOO daily Tho The Antwerp nt dock workers arc causing causing caus caus- ing InS the tho strike c organizers some n ness They appear to be hanging in the balance as to whether the they will stop work and desperate efforts ettor s arc are being made to obtain their adhesion to th the strike movement A strike b by these men would bo be most important as it would bottle up tho entire export and nd import trade Many Man workmen are withdrawing their from banks mone money savings ings