FRENCH INDUSTRIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 April 1938, Page 7

FRENCH INDUSTRIES

NEW CODE DEVISED TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT,] PARIS, April 19. ’ Work is being resumed to-day in nearly all the metallurgical factories. The Cabinet Inner Council is put--1 ting the final touches to the emergency decrees on which M. Daladier has been working for tw’o days. The decrees are understood to apply the modern labour code to outlaw strikes begun without the approval of a secret ballot. WORKERS' GRIEVANCE. (Received April 20, 11 a.m.) PARIS, April 19. Despite the Eastertide efforts to ap- | pease the workers, 500 occupied the | Gnomcrhone aircraft works, and pre- ■ vented seven thousand resuming. The workers, generally, are disappointed with the slowness of resumption, alleging the employers are attempting to penalise them LATER. The Gnomerhone strikers have evacuated the works. WORKERS’ SECRET BALLOTS. (Recd. April 20, 2 p.m.) LONDON, April 19. “The Times’s’’ Paris correspondent says: M. Daladier conferred at length with M. Chautemps . .... ?... .mm.. dier, discussing the preparation of a I decree making a secret ballot compulsory in all cases where trade unionists are invited to vote on the question of a strike. AERIAL FORCE STRENGTHENED. (Recd. April 20, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 19.

The “Telegraph’s” Paris correspondent says:—ln view of the international situation, the Government has decided to build 2,500 new war planes as rapidly as possible, replacing the original programme of 1,500. Many have already been ordered, but the Air Minister (M. La Chambre), with the twenty million sterling supplementary credit recently passed, will be able to increase the rate of production. NEGOTIATIONS WITH ITALY (Rec. April 20, 8 a.m.) ROME, April 19. Count Ciano received M. Blondel, and discussed the appointment of a French Ambassador, after the League’s consideration of Abyssinia. ANTARCTIC CLAIMS. (Recd. April 20, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 19The “Telegraph’s” Paris correspondent says: The Government has published a decree claiming a huge tract of land in the Antarctic circle, with a view to the possibility of establishing air bases in future. This follows the recent, example of Britain and the United States occupying Pacific islands for a similar purpose. The French decree refers to all land between 136 and 142 degrees east and south of the sixtieth latitude, as far as the South Pole. Much of this territory is unexplored, but includes Adelin Land, which was claimed for France in 1840 by the explorer, Dumont Durville.