STRIKERS IN FRANCE
MUNITIONS AFFECTED CABINET INTERVENTION LONDON, May 30. Following intervention by the French Government which deprecates cessation of work in munition and aeroplane factories, the owners • will meet tho strikers on Sunday. The strikers /evacuated many establishments, but it is estimated ■ thai 47,000 arc still "staying in."
The strikers at the ' Licorne ■ motor works have detained the director until their demands are granted.
: The Daily Telegrnph's Paris eorrcs pondent says that despite the settle ment of the strike at the ttenault motor works there are still 30,000 workers "occupying" factories in the Paris area alone, " and 40,C00 else whore. ' Gates and windows- arc festooned with red flags. Tiring of cards, dice and domino playing, some of the workers' are organising ping-pong tournaments, and .others are waltzing round the machine shops to the strains of accordions.
The employers are insisting that the factories bo evacuated and work resumed before negotiations arc com menccd, pointing out that the new "staying, in" strike movement _ is a very grave development, infringing.the elementary rules of order and discipline. '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19029, 1 June 1936, Page 5
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