PARIS WALKS
Transport Strike
(N Z.P.A -Reuter—Copyright) PARIS. May 18. Parisians walked or hitchhiked to work today for the second time this month as underground and bus workers staged a 24-hour strike Paris suburban railways were completely idle today and there were only very few trains on long-distance lines as railway workers started a 32-hour strike at 3 am. A four-hour gas and electric employees' walk-out was expected to add to hardships, said the Associated Press. Railway workers were instructed by their unions to run their trains to the nearest division point after 4 a m. and leave them there. The walk-outs—supported by the main labour confederations, Catholic, Communist, and Socialist—are a new effort to break through the Government - imposed ceiling of about 4 per cent, wage increases a year. The Prime Minister (Mr Debre) laid down the rule in an attempt to control inflation.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29517, 19 May 1961, Page 11
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