Huge Cost Of M. Blum's Strike Legislation.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 160, 18 June 1936, Page 5

Huge Cost Of M. Blum's Strike Legislation.

Press Association—Copyright. Paris, June 18. The Senate has begun a debate on M. Leon Blum's strike legislation, which is estimated to entail an expenditure of £18,600,000 a year. M. Jouhaux, general secretary of the Trades Union Council, declares that French Labour has made up 20 years of leeway in one night. Union membership is now 2,600,000. The collective agreement affects 7,000,000 wage-earners, of whom 80 per cent, were previously Ignorant > .if union.. 1 "torgar isation, r.e .:essitating extensive tutelage '•:;■ ,j tijaii-saHd o: the 50,000 : men stiil -die at Paris occupy department stores and one-price shops. Employees of insurance companies and perfumers' and leathergoods houses are expected to resume to-morrow. The trouble is to Brittany.