- Title: INDIA: GENERAL STRIKE IN WEST BENGAL
- Date: 28th July 1973
- Summary: 1. GV Idle boats on Hoogly River (2) 0.08 2. GTV pan Deserted Streets and shuttered shops in suburban area 0.14 3. GV Shuttered shops in city 0.19 4. SV Idle rickshaws PAN to Congress workers marching in demo against strike (3) 0.35 5. GV Trams in street 0.46 6. GV Communist demonstrators along road 0.51 7. GV & SV vendors in street market (2) 1.01 8. GV Crowd in street outside cinema 1.05 9. GV & SV Activity at train station (2) 1.23 Initials SK/02.35 RS/BOB/SK/23.43 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 12th August 1973 13:00
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- Location: CALCUTTA: INDIA
- Country: India
- Reuters ID: LVADIKUQIG0VNS2FB2ZF38IXX9GG
- Story Text: One man was killed and a Communist legislator was seriously injured in outbreaks of violence during a 24 hour general strike in West Bengal, India.
The pro Moscow Communist Party of India and the Marxist Communist Party joined forces to sponsor the strike to protest against "profiteers, hoarders and high prices".
Both the Government and the strike organisers said the strike was about 50 per cent successful.
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