MANY STILL IDLE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19045, 19 June 1936, Page 13

MANY STILL IDLE

STRIKERS IN FRANCE

UGLY TURN IN SOUTH

FIGHTING BY FACTIONS

VOUT 11 CROUPS CLASH

(ElfiC. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Becd. June 18, 5 p.m.) PARIS, June 17.

The Senate to-day passed bills permitting indemnifies to civil servants, exempting ex-servicemen's pensions from taxation, and granting paid holidays to workers.

The metropolitan strikers still idle number 50,000 to 60,000. The situation is no better in Marseilles and is worse at Lyons, St. diamond, Angers, La Kochelle, Le Havre and Mulhouse, At Marseilles the. situation has. taken an ugly turn, owing to the assumption of a political complexion with the intervention of Jeunesses Pntriotes and other Kight organisations. Numerous clashes are occurring with the Front Populaire.

Youths of the Bight and Left, wearing respectively tricolour cockades and red brassards 'marched, shouting war cries, along the Oannebierc. Reinforcements joined both sides and fighting began. Passers by left trains and public vehicles and joined in, holding up all traffic. Gardes Mobiles separated the combatants, but bands reformed elsewhere! and resumed hostilities.

Bight rioters took refuge in a. disreputable gambling bouse, six of whose habitues barred the gate, and prepared to defend the building with revolvers. Members of the Front, Populaire attacked the premises, and the Gardes Mobiles intervened, but. the crowd, after an exchange, of missiles, refused to disperse. A message, from Casablanca says the sugar workers have resumed work, but metal works and paint works are idle. The Council of National Defence approved the establishment by the Resident Administrator, General Peyron, of an eight-hour day and a minimum wage for the native workers.