“Stay In” Strike

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 144, 3 June 1936, Page 7

“Stay In” Strike

ALARMING SPREAD Soap Factories To Night Clubs Affected CONFERENCE CALLED (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received 3, IU.3U a.m.) PARIS, June 2. The “stay in” strike is assuming alarming proportions. It is spreading to tho provinces, where 75,000 workmen aro occupying 51 additional establishments, including iron, steel, paint-making, electrical and chemical trades, and is paralysing the metallurgical industry.

Premises involved lank from soap factories to night clubs. The Citroen uud Renault employees resumed, but tho stalls struck at tho Lorraine, Bleriot, Loire and Olivier aeroplane works, and the Alsthom electric works. Agreements between the larger employers nnd workers seem to have incited the employees in the smaller factories, who insist on a revision of working conditions. The whole city is chuckling at tho extension of the strike to the Lido night club, in the Champs Elysees. Over 100 employees, comprising hostesses, dancers, gigolos and swimming instructors, learning that the establishment was closing on account of taxation expenses, refused to leave the premises, where there is plenty of food and wine to enable them to stand a siege

A full conference of employers and workers is being held on Wednesday under the chairmanship of M. Frossard, whom M. Sarraut summoned, urging him. with the heads of the Federation of Labaur, to do his utmost to prevent infractions of personal liberty.

Meanwhile, 2800 locomotive foundrymen struck at Lille, protesting against the dismissal of a I'cßow-workcr.