STRIKE VICTORY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19041, 15 June 1936, Page 6

STRIKE VICTORY

CELEBRATION IN PARIS HUGE CROWDS ASSEMBLE NEW BANNER UNFURLED FRENCH SOVIET FLAG (Klec. Tel, Copyright—TJnitP* Press Assn.) (Reed. •Line 15. 2 p.m.) LONDON, .Line 14.

The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail savs that marking the termination of the majority of the strikes, hundreds of thousands of employees who are resuming work to-morrow inarched in orderly files from the workshops to-day. Bodies of men afterwards returned to many factories and spent hours in removing revolutionary mural drawings and notices.

The Paris correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, says thai while racegoers representing half of Paris went to Chantilly to see the French Derby, the other half spent the afternoon in a victory festival organised by the Communis! Party at the. Velodrome Buffalo, the vast open-air stadium in the working class suburb ot Mont Rouge. Everything was well organised. Flags and banners on a colossal scale were flown. Approximately ICO.COO people crowded Die grandstand's and ICO.CCJ stood in the sunny arena which was bisected by a raised gangway leading to the speakers forum.

Tricolours alternated with red flags and banners inscribed: "Free, strong and happy France." The inscribed ban-, ners floated at each end of the stadium. Everyone wore red emblems.

A huge picture of the late Henri Barbousse adorned the speakers' platform. A band played revolutionary tunes, while squads of victorious strikers, bear ing banners displaying the hammer and sickle badges, paraded the gangway 1 as the crowds cheered for the (Soviet. Suddenly four great flags were broken from flagpoles 'in the middle ol the arena. These were examples of the newly-devised national llag of Soviet France, namely a red held quartered with the tricolour and the Communist hammer and sickle between -olden letters R.F. on the fly.