FRENCH STRIKES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22449, 19 June 1936, Page 9

FRENCH STRIKES

SINISTER DEVELOPMENT POLITICAL COMPLEXION RIOTING IN MARSEILLES By Teletrrnph—Press Association —Copyright PARIS. June 17 The situation in has taken an ugly turn owing to the assumption of a political complexion with the intervention of the Jeunesses Patriotes and other Eight organisations. Numerous clashes are occurring with the Front Populaire. Youths of the Right and Left parties, wearing tricolour cockades or red brassards, marched, shouting war cries, along the Cannebiere. Reinforcements joined both sides and fighting began. Passers-by left trains and public vehicles to join in, holding up all traffic. Gardes Mobiles separated the combatants, but the bands formed 11]> again elsewhere and resumed hostilities. Rightist rioters took refuge in a disreputable gambling house, six of whose habitues barred the gate and prepared to defend the building with revolvers. Members of the Front Populaire attacked the premises. Gardes Mobiles intervened, but the crowd exchanged missiles and refused to disperse. Metropolitan strikers still idle total 50,000 to GO,OOO. The situation is worse at Lyons, St. diamond, Angers, La Eochelle, Havre and Mulhouse. N THE FIERY CROtfS ACTIVITY OF ORGANISATION MANIFESTO ISSUED PARIS, June 17 The Fiery Cross organisation, of which little was heard during or since the elections, has re-entered the political field. The leader, Colonel de la Roque, has issued a manifesto stating: "Now that French unity is endangered we declare ourselves a political body above parties and factions described By Germany as effervescent and by Russia as revolutionary. Europe is unbalanced, and in the face of immediate perils the public weal must be protected." The manifesto does not indicate the nature of the action to be taken. SOCIALIST BILLS PASSAGE THROUGH SENATE PARIS, June 17 The Senate has passed the bills permitting indemnities to civil servants, exempting ex-servicemen's pensions from taxation and granting paid holidays to workers. FRENCH MOROCCO SUGAR WORKERS RESUME PARIS. June 17 A message from Casablanca, Morocco, says the sugar workers have resumed, but the metal works and paint works are still idle. The Council of National Defence approved the establishment by the Resident-General, M. Peyrniton, of an eight-hour day with a minimum wage for native workers.