FRENCH LABOR UPHEAVAL.
BASED MAINLY ON HIGH COST OF LIVING.
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PARIS, June 4. The labor upheaval is baaed mainly on the cost of living. Three hundred and fifty thousand struck m the Paris region, paralysing traffic. The men claim a minimum of 450 francs monthly with a. pension at the age of fifty-five. Fifteen thousand arsenal workers at Puteaux, also the miners m the Paa de Calais have struck.
Demagogae orators ,are urging the men to extend the agitation, to political questions, and to protest against diplomatic -rv military intervention m Russia and Hungary, and to demand immediate denobilisation.
M. Cachin, Socalist deputy, declares that the underlying financial cause of the strike is the determination of Labor secure a definite share m the management of the great business interests of the country,- and further that the brench bourgeoisie have been combatting the working classes. Peasant republics were striving far existence m Europe, but organised Labor meant to secure the direction of. horns and foreign -vffau-s of France.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14936, 14 June 1919, Page 3
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178FRENCH LABOR UPHEAVAL. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14936, 14 June 1919, Page 3
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