FRENCH RAILWAY STRIKE
Negotiations To Be Reopened UNIONS’ REQUEST ACCEDED TO (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, June 9. The French Prime Minister (Mr Ramadier) has acceded to the request from the French Railway Workers’ Federation and agreed to reopen tomorrow the negotiations which he suspended on June 6, says the correspondent of Reuters in Paris. The unions’ request followed a conference with the Communist dominated committee of the General Confederation of Labour. Many interpret this as the execution of Communist orders to end the strike. The French Ministry of Transport, a *. < ?p mmu nique, said that a number of strikers had demonstrated with the intention of blocking the Govern-ment-operated emergency road services. Others had threatened to stop the special food trains. The Ministry warned that the Government would not tolerate such obstruction. The police arrested at least four Paris chauffeurs who attempted to get excessive prices for transporting stranded travellers to the provinces, and confiscated their vehicles. One hundred thousand, university students throughout France staged a 48-hour token strike ending to-morrow against a prospective rise in tuition fees.
The correspondent of Reuters in Basle says that without money to stay on and without transport to move on. hundreds of British tourists are stranded in Switzerland by the French rail strike. The British authorities are issuing transit visas so that people can make a detour through Germany to cross the Channel from the Hook of finar?cially nd they afe assisting tourist s More than 1000 foreign tourists have been arriving at Basle each day. Air transport companies are organising special services, but most of the travellers will have to wait several days for seats on planes or on emergency road services which are being organised.
In Paris, the British Embassy has arranged for a fleet of military omnibuses to run a service from Paris to Calais to clear stranded tourists.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25207, 11 June 1947, Page 7
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