FRENCH IMPROVEMENT
WORKERS TO RESUME
MANY STILL IDLE
LONDON, Paris 14
The strike situation has greatly improved. Everywhere strikers are returning to work. With tho metal workers' dispute settled it is generally hoped that the back of the srtrike. has been broken. The employees of the Citroen and Renault Companies have formally evacuated the factories.
The Renault employees, dressed in carnival costuiies, held a procession in flower laden taxi cabs, celebrating their victory. There were similar dcmbn'stratians in many suburbs.
Work generally is expected to be resumed to-morrow, although builders and painters, Parisian stores assistants, insurance clerks, and river and canal boatmen are still standing out. In Paris the dockers came out, joining the boatmen.
Twelve hundred employees at the Nieuport aeroplane works have begun a stay-in strike.
The stoppage movement has spread to Morocco, where native sugar refiners and metal workers have struck.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19041, 15 June 1936, Page 5
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