A POLITICAL STRIKE: NEW AND DISTURBING ELEMENT
PARIS, June 26. M. Locaste, Industrial Production Minister, said that the coal strike was costing 85,000 tons of desperatelyneeded coal daily, and, if it continued, one-third of France’s steel mills would close. Sixty-two thousand motor car workers are still on strike, and all banks and department stores are still closed. The managers of some coal mines where the miners are on strike are fighting a losing battle to keep coke furnaces alight to maintain supplies of gas and electric current to towns receiving power direct from the pitheads. The gas supply in most towns of Northern France, however, has failed in the past two days.
A feature of the strike is that it is caused, not by n conflict on wages, but dissatisfaction with the Government's economic policy. Several commentators consequently describe it as an openly political strike, and see in this fact a new and disturbing element.
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Evening Star, Issue 26138, 27 June 1947, Page 5
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