Hsinhua of Dec. 11th reports: over 2,000 nurses marched through tho main stroots of Brussels on Dec. 9th demanding higher wagos and shorter working hours. Before the march, the marchers had a moeting arranged by the Public Service section of the Belgian General Federation of Labour. In Hainaut Province the samo day, a strike which disorganised industry was started by thousands of tramweyman, it the same time, thousands of tramwaymen of the Liege region downed tools or lsft thoir tram-cars, in support of their wage demands.
On Dec. 8th, workers and members of staff of the Paris Flandres and Michelet bus depots, together with wotkers at other depots, came out on strike in protest against th: government's uso of military police against the workers. Four workers at the Flandres depot wore discharged on Dec 7th by the General Manago- -ment of the Parisian Transport Administartion which sont military police to surround the d pot, The same high-handsd measure was takon against the repair workers of another state-owned factory. On Dec. 5th Paris Military Folice occupied tho ilichelet depot,