FRENCH ECONOMY PLANS

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 20 February 1933, Page 7

FRENCH ECONOMY PLANS

STORM OF PROTEST RAISED CIVIL SERVANTS DEMONSTRATE d OBJECTIONS BY BUSINESSMEN. FURTHER. TAXATION OPPOSED. Received 1.39 p.m. to-day. irtrtUS, i'eo. 19. “I appeal to the eouncry ro becalm,! reasonaoie and cliseipiineu,”. said M. de Laclier in the Senace in condemning shopkeepers fur closing yesterday ana civil servants for threatening to' strike as a protest against the Government’s economies and taxation. He added that neither the Government nor Parliament intended to deliberate under the menaces -of these demonstrations.

“It is unnecessary for the Government to prove the interest we take in all classes 1 of citizens,” he continued. “A strike of civil servants who have a contract with the State is inadmissa.ble. The financial position is less black than it is painted and the moral crisis' really is graver' than the material.” Meanwhile civil servants throughout the country are determined to demonstrate to-morrow against the live to ten per cent, cuts in .salary. Government offices are to cease work loi an hour, board schools for half an hour and trams, buses And railways for 10 minutes. It is declared that these are only l & prelude to more erastic methods. Ex-servicemen are organising a march of Parisian streets. Businessmen of Mar sallies, fruloTV'iJipr a monster meeting, decided finally to warn' the G overnment of their resolution to oppose every means of further taxation. Delegates of shopkeepers and manufacturers throughout the South'-of France supported the' resolution .