STRIKES IN FRANCE
Lack Of Public Transport (Rec. 10 p.m.) PARIS, April 1. More than a million French men and women were expected to be idle today—striking because of rising living costs—and the rest were walking, cycling, or hitch-hiking to work in a country without public transport. The 24-hour railway strike, starting at 4 a.m., was expected to be total, as the last of the railway trade unions, an independent group of footplate men. joined the movement.
Trains from abroad were being stopped at the frontier.
Paris was expected to be without underground trains or buses, with only a skeleton service of army lorries running on eight routes.
Other large cities were no bettei off. Air France, the nationalised French airline, cancelled all Its European services for the day es airport ground staffs came out for 24 hours from midnight yesterday. Foreign airlines were either diverting their flights to other countries or cancelling them for lack of ground transport to bring passengers on to Paris.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28551, 2 April 1958, Page 13
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