BELGIUM: 12,000 MARCH IN SUPPORT OF CAMPAIGN FOR MORE WORK

Record ID: 347402

  • Title: BELGIUM: 12,000 MARCH IN SUPPORT OF CAMPAIGN FOR MORE WORK
  • Date: 8th May 1967
  • Summary: CROWDS: CARRYING BANNERS: MARCH THROUGH TOWN: CROWDS LISTEN TO SPEAKERS (NATURAL SOUND THROUGHOUT). Initials JBC/VS/BHH/K Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 23rd May 1967 13:00
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  • Location: LA LOUVIERE, BELGIUM
  • Country: Belgium
  • Reuters ID: LVA7ZQUSOSYCZIWQVCCBB9MCGR8P
  • Story Text: Twelve thousand people staged a march in La Louviere, Belgium, today (Monday), in support of their demands for the economic reinvigoration of the area.

    The marchers, many of them carrying banners, claimed that the region was in a state of economic decline, and that the employment position, already grave, would get worse.

    A leaflet issued by the organisers claimed that during the past ten years, 20,000 jobs - representing a quarter of the active population - had been lost, and that more than 60 firms had closed.

    The leaflets also drew attention to the marchers' fears of more jobs at stake under the threatened closure of three of the four remaining coal mines in the area.
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