BILLS PASSED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 139, 13 June 1936, Page 10

BILLS PASSED.

NEW FRENCH LAWS.

Obstruction to Legislation -if/ Overcome.

f SITUATION IMPROVED. ¥ .United Press Association.—Copyright. n (Keceivcd 3 p.m.). ■sfPARIS.. June 12. -The Chamber of Deputies passed :li§ 40-Hour Week Bill by 355 votes :0|175. When the Chamber, of Deputies met, the members of the Right began to obstruct in order to prevent a discussion of the new Government's bills. However, a show of hands rejected a motion to shelve the measures on the pretext that - factories were still "occupied" by strikers and law and orSer had not been respected. tJproar, punctuated by cries of "Pigs; scoundrels," greeted the introduction of the bills by the Prime Minister, M. Blqrn. wild demonstration was precipitated by M. Blum's declaration that heS would not order the police and the M&bile Guards to enter "occupied" factories. A. measure to exempt ex-servicemen's pensions from taxation was passed without a division and the Paid Holidays Bill, granting 15 days' leave after a year's service, was passed by 503 votes to one. After a monotonous debate the Chamber eventually passed the Restoration of Cuts Bill, which, incidentally, precludes Civil Servants from taking employment outside the State services. f*" 3 it adopted a Collective Contracts by. 528 -votes,to 7, he Government declares that the sijjaiaticn has improved. The strike in hotels and restaurants has been satisfactorily settled. The building trade strikers have been forbidden to parade, aii|l no assembles will bo permitted, The race meeting at St. Cloud has b||n cancelled owing to the track workers striking without awaiting the authorities' reply to their demands.

I STRIKES GO ON. in Departmental Stores. REDS URGE RESUMPTION. * ' ' (Received 3 p.m.) PARIS, June 12. are relieved to find that waiters and other hotel and restaurant workers are back at work this morning. Many visitors were unable to obtain food yesterday. Others returned to their hotels to find the doors closed and had the greatest difficulty in entering. The luxury hotels maintained only a skeleton service. The department store strike continues, notwithstanding a settlement reached earlier in the week. Employers at Xico closed every big store as a protest against the workers' occupation of one of the more important sJiopa. The Government is hopeful that the rapid passing of legislation will encourage the strikers to resume work. The Communist leader, M. "Thore'z, addressing Paris Communists, declared: •'The workers must know, when to ; end the strike as soon as they have obtained the essential demands of a compromise in order not to lose strength."

UNEASINESS GROWS. Feverish "Anxiety to Prevent Riots in Paris. MANY TRADES WILL RESUME. . (Received 3 \p.m.) - PARIS, June 12. 1 The most important individual settlement was the signature of a collective contract at the Ministry of the Interior by employers and employees of the metallurgical industry. A significant development was the occupation of all the Paris town halls by armed Mobile Guards who, however, are gendarmerie, Jlot soldiers. This action resulted from as''conference between M. Blum, M. Salengro, Minister of the Interior, and the Police Prefect, M. Langeron, which determined on the preservation of order at all costs. M. Blum declared that t£e Deputies and Government are determined to enforce public order in view of the impression that suspicious external influences are operating, resulting in increased nervousness and tendency towards panic.

Every strategic point in the city demonstrates the Government's anxiety torprevent rioting. Buglers and Mobile Guards are on duty at the Montmartre and Drouot crossroads, ready to sound the firing alarm—namely, three warning blasts, neglect of which by the crowds will produce one final blast, after which the guards will be legally entitled to fire. Similar tense conditions prevail in all the great industrial areas. Many members of the Croix de Feu (Fiery Cross) perambulated the streets on the pretence of preserving order, but t}ie police refused their aid. and arrested many of them. The Bourse is steady, but the franc depreciated from 70.28 to 76.30. The Paris Municipal Council has resolved to decline all responsibility for any damage by strikes, the illegality of the Government has recognised but not attempted to condemn.

a The Ministry of Labour has announced termination of strikes in the cftfeinetmaking, butchering, dressmaking, slop-clothing, leather-bag and trunk trkdes, while metallurgical workers, builders, carpenters and locksmiths are expected to resume on Monday. r 'Amiens undertakers' employees have struck, making funerals impossible. X/unatie asylum warders struck and left the director single-handed. Inmates of a 'factory deliberately set fire to the Inulding 'but the blaze was extinguished 15y firemen. WORKERS TAKE CHARGE. ek- . ARMS FACTORY. nr (Received 1.30 p.m.) sr: BRUSSELS, June 12. r 'Stay-in strikers occupied Belgium's "iincipal arms factory, the Fabrique • rationale, at Liege. The Government intervening to compel evacuation.