Big Strike In France
PARIS, December 2. French citizens were without mail today, air traffic was paralysed at civil airports and hospitals were concentrating only on emergency cases as the result of a 24-hour strike of more than a million civil servants and public utility employees.
The country-wide strike is to back claims for “a living wage.” French airlines were using military airfields near Paris and foreign companies have ordered their air liners to land in Brussels and Geneva. But Parisians did not have to walk to work. Public transport workers decided against joining the strike and were marking it only as "a day of protest.” The strike also meant no rubbish collections. Most Government offices were closed and water supplies were curtailed.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29068, 3 December 1959, Page 17
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