HOLD-UP AT HAVRE

Wairarapa Age, 9 August 1935, Page 3

HOLD-UP AT HAVRE

CAMPAIGN AGAINST ECONOMY CUTS. SEAMEN DECIDE TO CONTINUE STRIKE. COMPANY AND GOVERNMENT. PARIS, August 7. The campaign against the Government’s economy cuts has brought ths port of Le Havre to a standstill. At a meeting of seamen from all the French Transatlantic ships in the harbour it was decided to carry on the strike begun earlier in the day by the crew of the liner Champlain. If the strike continues the Colombia will be held up on Thursday, and the Lafayette on Friday. The Normandie is not due to sail until August 14, but all the crews sympathise with the men on the Champlain, while officers have refused to accept their salaries as a protest. The Champlain is due to leave for New York with 800 passengers, including 250 who are due from London, and French tennis players who are to participate in the American championships. English passengers arriving at Waterloo found that the boat-train had been cancelled, while French passengers were kept in long suspense and were unable to get food, as the kitchen staffs had left the ship. Police guarded piles of luggage on the quayside. The strikers sent a letter to the company saying that they were not civil servants and that their contract was a private one ratified under the maritime working code. The company replied to the effect that the strikers’ grievances were against the Government, and referred them to the Minister of Mercantile Marine, who declines to intervene.

trouble at Brest. INSULTS & MISSILES HURLED AT POLICE. BREST, August 7. The arsenal workers downed tools this afternoon when delegates conferred in the Place Anatole France. The crowd hurled insults and then threw bottles and stones at the police, who charged: A twenty minutes’ fight ensued, a number of people being injured.

The arsenal will be closed on Thursday for the funeral of a workman killed in the riots on August 6. There is intense feeling against the Second Regiment of Colonial Infantry, as it is believed that it caused the death of the workman whose funeral is to take place on Thursday. The workman is alleged to have attacked an infantryman, who struck him on the head with the butt of Ms rifle. The workman died in hospital during a trepanning operation. He leaves a widow and five children.