WAVE OF STRIKES
SPREAD IN FRANCE
A CLASH AT LILLE
LA ROCQUE ACTIVE
United Fress Assoclattoa—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LILLE, September 16. Mobile guards were obliged to charge crowds several times last night, and 30 were injured during demonstrations connected with the textile | strike. . Thousands assembled outside a hall where the French Social Party, an offshoot of the banned Croix de Feu, was meeting, and attempted to set fire to it. Already a wave of smaller strikes is spreading through France. Colonel de la Eocque, leader of the Croix de Feu, has seized the opportunity of launching a new campaign against the Government, displaying posters throughout France declaring. that an increases in prices has already outdistanced the advance in wages.
The Government today received representatives of the employers and the workers. M. Chautemps is expected to be appointed arbitrator. The Government believes that both sides will accept his decision.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 68, 17 September 1936, Page 9
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