- Title: INDIA: BOMBAY HIT BY ONE-DAY STRIKE.
- Date: 26th August 1966
- Summary: 1. GV BOMBAY 0.04 2. GV NEAR-TRAFFICLESS STREETS 0.08 3. GV PAN LINE OF STRIKE-BOUND TAXIS 0.16 4. SCU PRO-STRIKE POSTER 0.19 5. CU ANOTHER POSTER 0.21 6. GV CLOSED CINEMA 0.24 7. SV STREET LAMP ON DURING DAY 0.25 8. GV PAN DOCKS 0.31 9. SV WIRE NETTING ON BUS WINDOW 0.34 10. GV STRIKERS MARCH 0.42 11. SV MARCHERS 0.45 12. LV DITTO 0.50 13. SV POLICE 0.54 14. SV PAN STRIKE MEETING 1.00 15. SV TULASI BODA 1.02 16. CU STRIKER LISTENS 1.04 17. SV BODA 1.06 18. SV STRIKERS APPLAUD 1.10 Initials GM/VS/AE/OS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 10th September 1966 13:00
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- Location: BOMBAY, INDIA
- Country: India
- Reuters ID: LVA8SW0T760ZF5BZ7N1Y10E0MVAK
- Story Text: BOMBAY WAS HIT YESTERDAY (THURSDAY) BY A ONE-DAY STRIKE CALLED BY LEFT-WING OPPOSITION PARTIES. THE STRIKE, INVOLVING THOUSANDS OF WORKERS, WAS CALLED IN PROTEST AGAINST RISING PRICES IN INDIA.
THE STRIKE BROUGHT CLASHES BETWEEN POLICE AND STRIKERS, RESULTING IN NEARLY 40 PERSONS BEING INJURED. BUSES AND TAXIS WERE OFF THE STREETS, HOTELS, RESTAURANTS AND CINEMAS WERE CLOSED, AND THE CITY'S TWO LEADING EVENING NEWSPAPERS FAILED TO APPEAR. THE STRIKE ALSO CRIPPLED THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY, ON WHICH BOMBAY, INDIA'S SECOND LARGEST CITY, DEPENDS.
THE STOPPAGE WAS SPONSORED BY COMMUNISTS AND SOCIALISTS AND THEIR TRADE UNION WINGS.
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