FORTY-HOUR WEEK STRIKE
MINORITY IN PARIS BARGEES TAKE ACTION PARIS, July 13. The strike by Paris cafe, restaurant and hotel employees, who are seeking to enforce a 40-hour week, is conspicuously ineffective. All the hotels are able to serve their guests.
Only 32 cafes closed and only 0000 out of 42,000 employees struck.
Bargees at Saint Quentin tied together 100 barges and blocked the river to enforce their demand for a 40-hour week.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19376, 14 July 1937, Page 5
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