Communists In France Oppose Marshall Plan
(Rec. 10.30 a.m.) PARIS, April 4. The annual conference of the Com-munist-led Confederation of Labour passed unanimously a resolution opposing the American European _ recovery programme, which “imperilled the existence of essential French industries, threatening vast unemployment;” The conference urged all workers and delegates in join industrial committees throughout France to give help to the committees for the “defence of French industry against the menace of expansion of American trusts.” . , . - The Communist union chief, M. ■ Benoit Franchon, said that the industrial emmittees- alone were capable of setting France’s affairs in order, but asked: “Why develop our production capacity when all .the doors are being thrown wide open to American manufactured products?”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 April 1948, Page 5
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