From: Curtis Price <cansv-AT-igc.apc.org>
Date:          Fri, 23 May 1997 07:13:16 +0000
Subject:       (Fwd) 50 injured in labor clashes in northern Argentina


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Subject:       50 injured in labor clashes in northern Argentina



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50 injured in labor clashes in northern Argentina

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Sugar >>workers<< protesting layoffs
clashed with police for a second day in one of Argentina's poorest
provinces. More than 50 people were injured.

Television footage showed border police using tear gas and rubber bullets
to disperse crowds in Jujuy province Tuesday and Wednesday. >>Workers<<
fought back by throwing rocks at the security forces.

The violence erupted when police broke up roadblocks by sugar refinery
>>workers<< who were protesting recent layoffs and, in some cases, unpaid
wages.

Local labor leaders called for a 24-hour general >>strike<< in the northern
province today to protest the police action and recent austerity measures
by the government.

Some 4,000 people have lost their jobs in recent years in Jujuy from sugar
industry cutbacks.

The province on the border with Bolivia has 40 percent unemployment.



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