Salvadoran Strikers Routed
SAN SALVADOR — National guardsmen broke into a strike-bound textile factory today and forced hundreds of strikers off the premises, a labor union spokesman said. Four women were reported injured.
The strike had been declared illegal Tuesday by a labor court, which issued a return-to-work order. The established union at the Industrias Unidas S.A. plant on the outskirts of the capital called the strike 12 days ago after the Labor Ministry officially recognized a smaller, rival union that sympathized more with President Jose Napoleon Duarte’s Christian Democratic administration. The established union at the plant is viewed as leftist-dominated.
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