A LOCK-OUT
ANSWER TO COMMUNISTS FRENCH FIRM’S ACTION (The Times) LONDON, April 26. The Paris correspondent of the Times itates that following upon demonstrations against wage reductions, including sectional strike, in which men paraded the workshops, singing u The Internationale,” the Citroen management locked oat 10,000 in various departments simultaneously, anouncing that they could resume on April 2S unless fresh disturbances necessitated a general lock-out of 30000 employees. The company subsequently issued a statement that it would be impossible to continue if Communist workmen wilfully provoked disorders, pointing out that the present wagtt> were not only the company’s highest, but were higher than the averaging Parisian rates.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19827, 29 April 1927, Page 7
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107A LOCK-OUT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19827, 29 April 1927, Page 7
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