THE STRIKE OVER.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13284, 16 June 1936, Page 5

THE STRIKE OVER.

REJOICING IN FRANCE. A NE.V TLAG PRODUCED. Unit-efl Press Assn.—By ElectricTelegraph—Copyright. LONDON,. June 14. The “Daily Mail’s” Paris correspondent says that marking the termination of the majority of strikers hundreds of thousands of employees, who are resuming to-morrow, marched ill orderly files from the workshops. Bodies of men afterwards returned to many factories and spent hours removing revolutionary mural drawings and notices. The “Guardian's” Paris correspondent says that while racegoers, representing half Paris, went to Chantilly to see the French Derby, the other half spent the afternoon at a “Victory Festival” organised by the Communist party at the Velodrome Buffalo, a vast open air stadium in the working class suburb of Montrouge. Everything was well organised. There were flags and banners on a colossal scale.

One hundred thousand persons crowded the grandstands and one hundred thousand stood in the sunny arena, which was bisected by a raised gangway leading to the speakers’ forum. The tri-colours, alternated with red flags and banners inscribed, “Free, strong and happy France,” floated at each end of the stadium. Every one wore red emblems and a huge picture of the late Henri Barbonssa adorned the speaker’s platform. A band played revolutionary tunes, while squads of victorious strikers' hearing banners displaying a hammer and sickle and badges paraded the gangway. As the crowds cheered great flags were broken from their flag-poles in the middle of the arena these were the examples °f the newly devised National flag of .Soviet-Fiance, namely a red field quartered with the tricolour and the Communist hammer and sickle between the golden letters “R.F.” on the flag.