AGAINST TAXES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 42, 20 February 1933, Page 7

AGAINST TAXES.

FRENCH TURMOIL.

COMMUNITY ROUSED. Public Service Strikes Hint of More Drastic Measures. ALL CLASSES DEMONSTRATE. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 1 p.m.) PAKIS, February 19. "I appeal to the country to be calm, reasonable and disciplined," said the Prime Minister, M. Daladier, in the Senate, when condemning shopkeepers for closing yesterday and civil servants for threatening to strike in protest against the Government's economies and taxation. He added that neither the Government nor Parliament intended to deliberate under the menaces of these demonstrations.

"It is unnecessary that the Government should prove the interest it has taken in all classes of citizens. A strike of civil servants, who have a contract with the State, is inadmissable. The financial position t is less black than it is painted. The moral crisis is really graver than the material."

Meanwhile, civil servants throughout the country are determined to demonstrate to-morrow against the 5 and 10 per cent cuts. Government offices wUI cease work for an hour, the board schools for half an hour, and the trams, buses and railways for 10 minutes. This is declared to be only the prelude to more drastic methods.

Ex-servicemen are organising a march in the streets of Paris. Business men in Marseilles, following a monster meeting, decided to warn the Government finally through a resolution opposing every means of further taxation. Delegates of shopkeepers and manufacturers throughout the south supported this resolution.