WAGE CRISIS MAY OUST FRENCH GOVERNMENT

Grey River Argus, 30 June 1947, Page 5

WAGE CRISIS MAY OUST FRENCH GOVERNMENT

(Rec. 8.20). LONDON, June 2'B. A second special meeting of the French Cabinet was held within. 24 hours. It ended, early this morning, without reaching an agreement on the Government’s wages policy, reports Reuter’s Paris correspondent. The Socialist Ministers want the Government to agree to a general revision of wages, but the Popular Republicans and the Radicals oppose this concession. The Ministers are p.-rasi-mistic about the chances of the present Government continuing much longer. But, for the moment, there is no crisis.

Millions of the workers throughout France may find their pay envelopes empty this month, as the result of an intensification of the .strike of the bank employees. The national committee announced that henceforth all payments of cheques would be stopped, including the payment of salary cheques, 'lhe committee obtained co-operation from Treasury employees in making the non-payment of cheques effective.

Miners Expected to Resume Work

(Rec. 7.50). PARIS, June 28. The French Cabinet has approved of terms for an agreement with the miners’ leader.

The men are expected to return to work to-morrow.