STRIKE IN SPAIN
Some 4,000 coal miners in Asturias went on strike February 21 in sympathy with 11 fellow workers who staged a sit-in strike in a mine shaft 1,000 feet below the surface. The sit-in began February 18 when the 11 took over an unused gallery in the Llamas mine in the village of. Abana, four miles from Mieres. The 11. are protesting their dismissals a year ago for participating in labor disputes. All they demand is to be rehired. They were reported to have stocked the gallery with food, vitamin pills and fresh filtered water. It was not known how long they could hold out. ,
Miners in other towns in the region were reported to be considering joining in sympathy walkouts. Management decided to keep other workers from entering the mine "for safety reasons." Communicating with the 11 by mine telephone, company and union officials asked them to end their sit-in. The reply was, "You will have to take us out on stretchers.