FRENCH POLITICS

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1938, Page 5

FRENCH POLITICS

SPLIT IN PARTY M^, t DEUDIER FIRM.,: "-C ,7- '.,,7v.. : / : (United PiGßs Association—By Electric Telegraph--Copyn^ht).

. . PARIS, August 24.-' . M. Blum, in : A'’phone" talk with M. Daladier, urged hifh'to adopt a middle course ' acceptable s’Ktb 5 ’ K tb the Socialists, and even enable theif participation in the Cabinet. _ • UL J reprbsyHting" ' ft 'ini'llion.' ifietaliitt'gTcal" 'condemned ‘ M.' I>a 1 rft!Lt/P's T tfititu\lc ;f t T o ‘the forty-hour week. *' ' : 1s ' 1 [ 1 lv V .' t h *7 ’ • *’' •' n u Tlib Union Syndicates" find National Railway Union passed similar resolutions.' :77 j _ . t Forty-three thousand miners threaten to strike oh September 15, if wages are not revised, and a 3B‘s'hours week not -given.'" ' \-,’7"' : -.i r THE SOCIALIST ATTITUDE. £ PARIS, August 24. ' Thci'Radicals passed a resolution of complete eotifidencA 1 'in' M/ Daladier, declaring that'a Antibnal' collective effort was more'necessary tlikn ever in view" of the fearful' di'sprbportion between the production “of' I ranee and the dictatorship;' where'* everything was subordinated to, military preparations. ' The„, adaptation of ■ the fortyflour u’eek to meet the exigencies of the national , and ; international situation,i’cannot’be ’regarded'as-an act of recession. : 77 The. Socialist Party Executive decided ,to dkniifnd the’immedifitiA summoning, of 'Pafliament.' '- ; FEAR OF 7 GERMANY. . <7, : LONDON; August 25. . ‘‘The. Telegraph’s-’ Paris correspondent; s>yp: 7M. Daladierj 'privately addressing -the Executive of the Radical Socialists;- cited- figures .showing that French 7 production,. at present, waslagging behind . Germany’s'.; *Aj modification of the forty-hour week was imperative to make up. the leeway. .He •■emphasised, the dangers';qf sterile, discussion, pointing out that Ger-many-/had , two' million ~monunder arms. Her war strength-would remain at this’figure"for .threOimonths.; Though not actually <,7 ?(iobili.ea.tien,/. it. was, a sort of “mobilisation by anticipation,’’ giving Germany a :< flying start in, the event -of international:. The Government was; therefore. oblig:ed to ■make : thei’Urgency ,<?(•• the situation clear to the public, and to emphasise that national defence ,must bo placed before,,every other consider-ationi.',-..;'.-V-- ■' >7 \

rHe “Telegraph’s” Paris.corjespon-derifLi’siys-that:. tlie. Marseilles, clock, strike lias spread, to several . other portsy alsd ta-Algeria, andaisblikely to affect Corsica and. Morocco.;,; • ■7 74- 7 ' ''. '