MORE STRIKERS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 205, 12 June 1936, Page 5

MORE STRIKERS

EXCEED RETURNING WORKERS.

FRENCH INDUSTREAL DISORDER.

UNION COUNCIL IGNORED.

SQUEEZING 7 U'mgsfr FROM

EMPLOYERS.

(United Press Association—Copyright.) (Receive-d; This Day, 11.50 a.m.). LONDON, June 11;

The Paris correspondent of “The Times” says that the good impression created by the settlement last Sunday is slowly evaporating; the number of new strikers exceeding the number of those resuming work. Thousands marched down the boulevards, cheering and waving red flags. Others cheered in taxis, shouting (lefiant slogans.

The authority of the trade union councils is not as strong as the leaders supposed. The workers are ignoring its decrees and, instead of returning en 'bloc, are consolidating the advantages won, and are taking up collections, exhausting middle-class sympathy by waging guerilla war, in order to squeeze the utmost from the individual employers. The strikes have extended to firstclass restaurants and hotels in Paris. Factories are idle at Bordeaux where shipyard workers took possession of the liner Cap Pa-daran. A boatbuilder at Marseilles, angered with a striking staff,’fired at them and was arrested, after wounding one. The franc continues to sag, but the exchange market is inert. STOPPAGE OF WORK AT ALGIERS. 'SUGAR FACTORY OCCUPIED. (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) ALGIERS, June 11. Seven hundred sugar factory hands struck and occupied the premises.