FRENCH STRIKE DEVELOPMENTS
PEACE AT HAVRE . SEAMEN REJOIN SHIPS / [BY CABL®—PRESS ASSN.—-COPYRIGHT,] x ■ ■■ 1 ■■■? ' f (Recd. August 9, 1 p.m.)- - ; PARIS, August 8;/ The .Havre strike has ended, following a: meeting, at Paris between a? delegation of seamen and M., Bertrand, Minister of Merchant Marine, wjio. assured the seamen that their grivances would be sympathetically considered. He . urged them, in their own and* their country’s interests, to return to«work. The news that the Champlain .would sail this evening was received joyously by the passengers, who had been living in picnic fashion,‘ 'partly -aboard and partly in restaurants, The crew returned to the ship,, amid; cheers. The Champlain Will' call at Southampton, in the morning, to • pick .up .250, passengers who, left London at midnight, having spent the ;day; mostly in sightseeing. : . .-.a Lafayette and other wHI leave'.dn the due date.C . ; .>» •' Two, thousand, employed: at the n\Unition works-at Toulon, downedtopis this. afternoo.n, and- paraded the,toyn. They were dispersed - af'ter-w>en,chuiy> er with the mobile guards; ■■ ’*!■
A similar incident occurred at the Cherbourg naval arsenal. At Brest, street fighting continued until after midnight, when demonstrators w’ere finally dispersed by cavalry and mobile guards, who belaboured them with rifle butts. ’ : •
Between 20,000 and 25,000 people each wearing a red flower, participated in the funeral, at Brest, of Joseph Baraer, the workman who wgs killed during the riots. The workers,- with the concurrence of the police, undertook’the maintenance of order .themselves. The police arranged that the military should be withdrawn ’ from
the town. ’ ' ‘ ’ * The men decided to resume work.at the arsenal dockyard in the morning.
FIGHTING AT TOULON *
< , (Recd. Aug. 9,2 p.m.). v > PARIS August S. , Later reports indicate Ithat • the Toulon outbreak was more serious than was at first reported. Three thousand were, involved. The police, during the afternoon, made repeated charges, during which revolvers were fired. Many heads were broken, and sixty arrests were made. The’ riot-, ing was resumed in. the evening, unexpectedly, as most of the workers, obeying orders, remained indoors, but 200 extremists marched in the streets singing the "Internationale.” Guards cleared the streets, but tho strikers took refuge in neighbouring houses, and began to snipe at the police and guards, who thereupon opened fire. Three persons are reported killed, add ; more than fifty wounded, including an Inspector of Police. Instead of subsiding, the wave of violence and strikes against the cuts threatens to spread. Communist agitators are working desperately to exploit the situation. WAGE CUT CONCESSION . LONDON, August 8. According to the "Daily Mail’s” Paris correspondent, M. Laval decided to reduce the pay cuts decreed, from ten per cent, to three per cent, on tho lower salaries. SYDNEYSHIPPINGDISPUTE TROUBLE EXTENDING. [BY CABLE—PEES 8 ASSN. —COPY HIGHT.} SYDNEY, August 8. The "Sun” states: After a threehour fight at a special meeting of the seamen to-day, the militant grpup carried a motion that all of the Huddart Parker Company’s ships and also the Union Company’s freighter, "Talune” should be declared "black” until the "Zealandia” dispute had been satisfactorily settled. The Talune was chartered yesterday to transport the Zealandia’s cargo to Hobart. She was scheduled to sail tomorrow. It is expected that the Wanganelia, when she returns from Melbourne at the week-end, will be involved. Possibly, she will be unable to sail for New Zealand on Monday. A section of the Seamen’s Union unsuccessfully tried to have the dispute confined to the Zealandia.
OFFICIALS AGAINST STRIKE
(Rec. August 9, Noon) SYDNEY, August 9.
Referring to the shipping dispute, the “Herald” says: A big shipping upheaval will depend on the attitude of the working men at present engaged on the vessels. The meeting yesterday was dominated by the extremists, aud strike decision was reached against the advice of the officials. It is likely that another meeting will be convened iu the hope of reversing the decision.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 August 1935, Page 7
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