GENERAL LET-UP IN FRENCH STRIKES
(Rec. 11 a.m.) PARIS, Oct. 13. A. general let-up of the strike situation 4 " is evident in many parts of France. Three big transatlantic liners unloaded passengers at Cherbourg and there are signs of agreement soon in the Lorraine steel and mine, workers’ stoppage. The British United Press correspondent says 100 police clashed with 500 butchers, who failed to obtain meat following the Government’s decision to sell only to the Co-opera-tive. which agreed to observe the official maximum prices. The butchers demonstrated outside the Co-opera-tive’s .offices, but wer-e dispersed. * A later message stated that an agreement has been reached ending the steel and mineworkers’ strike in Lorraine. __________
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 October 1948, Page 7
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