ULTIMATUM BY DALADIER

Southland Times, Issue 23674, 24 November 1938, Page 5

ULTIMATUM BY DALADIER

Finance Committee Threatened EFFORT TO ENACT RECOVERY BILLS METAL WORKERS CALLED OUT IN PROTEST (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received November 23, 9.5 p.m.) / PARIS, November 22. The Prime Minister (M. Edouard Daladier) issued an ultimatum to the Chamber of Deputies Finance Committee that if his financial programme were not approved without major modifications he would postpone the visit of ’the British Prime Minister (Mr Neville Chamberlain), convoke the Chamber and the Senate on Thursday and seek a vote of confidence.

The committee heard a long explanation from the Minister of Finance (Dr Paul Reynaud), but it has not yet reached a decision.

The Socialist motion rejecting M. Daladier’s decrees was defeated by 20 votes to 18, with five abstentions. Later a motion was carried, the text of which was accepted by the.Govemment, which is equivalent to a vote of confidence. The Metal Workers’ Union is calling out 20,000 members tomorrow as a protest against police action, against overtime and against the decrees generally. The secretary-general of the Communist Party (M. Maurice Thorez) declared: “The men are willing to work all the time required to manufacture arms to checkmate Herr Hitler, on the condition that M. Daladier goes.” M. Daladier has instructed prefects throughout France to end “stay-in strikes without delay.