THE STRIKES

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 206, 13 June 1936, Page 5

THE STRIKES

FRENCH SITUATION IMPROVES. HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS ‘ OPEN. RAGE MEETING CANCELLED. United Press AssociationmCopyright) (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) ' PARIS, June 12. The Government declares that the situation has improved. The strike in the hotels and restaurants. has been satisfactorily settled. The building trade strikers have been forbidden to parade, and no assemblies are permitted. . The race meeting at St. Cloud has been cancelled owing to the track workers striking, without awaiting the authorities’ reply to their demands.

UPRO‘AR IN THE‘ CHAMBER. NO POLICE ACTION AGAINST MEN. ' PARIS, June 11. When the Chamber of Deputies met the Right members began obstructing, to prevent discussion on new Government Bills, but a show of hands rejected a. motion to shelve them on the pretext that , the factories were still occupied and .» law and order not respected. Uproar, puncttated with cries of‘ “Pigs!” and “Scoundrels!” greeted M. Blum’s introduction of the meav sures Another wildj demonstration was precipitated .by his declaration that he Would not order the police and mobile guards to enter the occupied factories. A measure exempting former service‘ men’s pensions from taxation was passed without division, and a Pay» and Holidays Bill, granting 15 days’ leave aftera year’s service, was passed by 563 votes to 1.

After a. monotonous debaflce the Chamber eventually passed a Bill for the restoration of cuts, which, incidentally, precludes civil servants from taking jobs outside State employment, and adopted a Collective Contracts Bill by 528 votes "to 7. The Chamber phen adjournedi

“STAY-IN” AT LIEGE.

BIG ARMS FACTORY OCCUPIED.

(Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) ._ BRUSSELS, J um; 12.

“Stay-in” strikers occupied Belgium’s principal arms factory, the Fabrique National, at; Liege. The Government is intervening to compel evacuation.