GENERAL STRIKE LIKELY IN FRANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1938, Page 9

GENERAL STRIKE LIKELY IN FRANCE.

TRADE UN lON J CALL — ' 21-Hour Stoppage! Planned For December 1. FURTHER CLASHES IIEPORTED. rmtM I'rrss A ssoctn tinn j —Copy rlplit. (Keceiveil l-j mm ni.> I A »\ l)( )\. ember i'.",. Thf Paris c.,rre-|„„,d,.„t of the I Np ws' .say, the Trade ">on executive decided lo call a J ""ir ?etier,il strike ,(f 4,000,000 workers on l>eceinher T. Twenty p„!iee and MoHil,. ls J' 11 ;""' 1 -»■•<> wo,* MIPII , m . Pst „ (l '"•''"■P sit-down striken were ejected Workmen erected barricades and n K ed iron bars ' " n 'i |""is. 1 ) 10 police»c ivent ua II v used ten r <»a a. 1 he strikers broke ma<diinerv and all ' I hey ha\e jiow evacuated ii.«ist ~t t lu- Paris factories. Alter a hurried Cabinet mectin- it was announced that t he. eminent "had com ma ndeered the railway in the An/.in ', I"' t "here miner* *,<-ciipied t.he pits. Ihe -Hike is still Ui»a i|it liorised. Hank and Stock »v :cha n-e Workers, decided t,, part icipatu ti/n a -eneral strike if called. 'I'll.- ( iovernment liars banned all openair meet in-* in the I* iris urea arran-ed for to morrow. \l-r. the Prime Minister. M. Da ladier. intends to «ii**ol\e the f onunuiiist. party om iny to its refusal to oU'y social laws *nd decrees. Political and Economic Upheaval. l«o major <le\eb^inicnth are threitetiiliK political and uphen\'.i 1. Hirst, the I rude I rVion decision to call a. -eneral strike, wlrjch t lw> (Jeneral Confederation of Labour linu.niinoiisly -i\e its nupport. and sen ,milyj, the Socialists' dema nd for M. I )ji lad ic r s reisipnation, thereby ofTicmlly it h<lni»u in- from the r.overnmeiit'.s ma ji»rit v. M. Daladier stat/'d t/nat lie would net tolerate holdin- ?ip essential ser» ice'. He conferred with military ami •nunicipal chiefs with#ji v?ew to their maintenance in the cveirt of a com[,lete «<top pajje. A decree will f lie issued on Saturday ompowerin- the >1 rov/ernment to requisition conl mines 'nnrV the <-o-nate inrius tries in northern France engaged inh»i>r w°rk. in which I.(XM> t ir« " on utrFkc. The utrikers totaf /](Ml.0(10. huiirds ; evacuated the striken from 50 out o/f 70 factories, leaiinin oceu[va/llion. Tho military' stuff took overi 1 tliAn/in' mine and railways, and fwork was resumed.

Railwaymeny.held up suburhan tarains for 30 minutfea. passengers joininp in the »hout of j "Down with the Dafadior decree laws. Chemical /worker* and bnildern in various districts will strike on Saturday. The /Government has forbidden mass demonstrations • organised in the P«ria regifwu The Trtwle Union executive »ent. n telegram unions all over France demanding jIOO per cent observance jof the stoppage ion December 1 and ordorinresumptmn of work thereaftei and avoidance of incident# or hasty faction. 290 IN CUSTODF. Charge Of Combining /For Arnied Rebellion, f FRENCH RIOTS SEQUEL. Independent Cable Service. (Received 11 a.m.) PARIS, XovemH er 25. The police announce that 2IXJ of the 700 arrested after the disturbances at the Renault works, are being kept in enstody and will he charged with combining for an armed rebelli«m.