INFLUENCE SPREADS TO BELGIUM
PROGRAMME OP M. VAN ZEELAND BRUSSELS, June 10. The situation in France is influencing Belgium. The programme of 'M. Paul van Zeeland, who has undertaken to form a Cabinet, is believed to include paid holidays, though it is opposed to a 40-hour weak. It also favours collective
bargaining by the employers and workers, the establishment of technical councils in each industry to advise upon the laws affecting them, and it sponsors drastic constitutional reforms. ? An attempt by Belgian coal* miners at Liege to emulate flit stay-in strikers • failed. The police ejected them without incident.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21807, 12 June 1936, Page 11
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