Lille, Sunday.
Considerable disorder, in which two policemen were injured, marked yesterday's meeting of textile strikers here. Orators harangued the men, exhorting them to stand firm against the employers, and persuaded them to pass a resolution calling for a general strike on Tuesday.
At the end of the meeting a strong party of strikers and police came to blows, with the result that two gendarmes were slightly hurt. At the same time an innocent crowd of cinema-goers, who were flocking our from the afternoon performance, were suddenly charged by the police.
A woman and two children were injured in the stampede which followed this uncalled for attack, which was apparently due to the fact that the inspector in charge had led his men down the wrong street, and had mistaken the cinema audience for a mob of strikers.
The Irish Times,
October 1st, 1928.