CABINET CRISIS
SEQUEL TO COAL TROUBLES (Rec. 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, June 27. Serious disagreement has arisen in the French Cabinet over the coal crisis affecting 250,000 miners, says the Paris correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.” Work wds resumed at Lorraine this morning on the strength of an agreement between M. Locaste, Minister of National Production, and the union leaders. When M. Lacoste asked Cabinet to endorse the agreement to-day, M. Teitgen (Popular Republican vicePremier) refused, with the support of Radical, Socialist and Independent members. Only Socialist colleagues supported M. Lacoste. M. Teitgen maintained that the agreement would wreck the attempt just made by the Government to put the nation’s finances on a sound basis. Another emergency Cabinet meeting is being held later to-night. M. Teitgen told pressmen: “We are now faced with a wave of increased pay demands, amounting to claims for a general increase in wages. We cannot accept increases, except at the price of inflation and bankruptcy. If the Government gives way to pressure France will suffer the same fate as Hungary.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 219, 28 June 1947, Page 5
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