"STAY-IN" STRIKE
FRENCH MOTOR WORKS
EMPLOYEES' PASTIMES
LONDON, May 30.
"Daily Telegraph's" Paris correspondent says that despite the settlement at the Renault . works there are still 30,000 workers "occupying" factories in the Paris area alone, and 40,000 elsewhere. Gates and windows are festooned with red flags. Tiring of cards, dice, and domino playing, some workers are organising ping-pong tournaments and others are waltzing round machine shops to the strains of accordions. Employers are insisting that the factories be evacuated and work resumed before negotiations are commenced. pointing out that the new "stay-in" strike movement is a very grave development, infringing elementary rules of order and discipline. Following intervention by the Government, which deprecates the cessation of work in munition and aeroplane factories, the owners will meet the strikers on Sunday. The strikers have now evacuated many establishments, but it is estimated that 47,000 are still staying in. Strikers at the Licorne motor works have detained a director until their demands are granted.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 128, 1 June 1936, Page 9
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