FRENCH STRIKES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19038, 11 June 1936, Page 6

FRENCH STRIKES

1 THOUSANDS STILL IDLE TEXTILE WORKERS RESUME PAY UP TEN PER CENT EMPLOYERS' OBJECTIONS (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Pross Assd.) (Reed. June 11; 1.30 p.m.) PARIS, June 10. Seventy thousand textile workers in tho Roubaix and Tourcoing districts are resuming to-morrow with a 111 per cent increase in pay. Other demands will be discussed when the measures proposed by tho Prime Minister, M. Loon Blum, are passed.

The northern milters are returning, but the drift to wow is not yet general. Those idle, according ■:> some estimates, still number 000,000, including new strikers coming out owin>( to tho trades unions being powerlcj* Tho latest stay-in strikers are the employees of fashionable costumiers. Mannequins and midinot tes a:e sitting in the shop windows, elm 111 j>j U.C passers-by. Three thousand fivo hundred agriculturalists of the Sein-j and Oiso districts struck, and stom masons, market gardeners, florists, racing .■stable boys, and Parisian charwomen are also refusing work. One Thousand and fifty strikers occupied the .Schneider munition works at Lo Havre, and the strikers are still not evacuated in the Citroon, Renault and Comtauld works.

The Blue Train ran again t.wlay, nut the employees on the French line struck after the sailing of the Xorniandie at 11 a.m., occupying the warehouses.

Many of the employers repudiate the wage increases, declaring that the concessions total 3:3 per cent, when the 40-hour week and the paid holidays are considered. Tho Parisian police are prosecuting shopkeepers for profiteering to the extent of 50 to JOO per cent when tho food supply was menaced. Already 2f>o summonses have been issued. Lifcboatmen on the SSeine are striking and have erected placards forbidding; people to .jump into the water, adding humorously that while tho strike lasts, only mothers-in-law will lie saved.