FRENCH CABINET

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 87, 13 April 1938, Page 7

FRENCH CABINET

CHANCES OF SUCCESS

PESSIMISTIC VIEW

FUTURE OUTLOOK

[By Telegraph—Pre.ia Association —CopyrithtJ LONDON, April 11.

The Australian Associated Press lays that although M. Daladier has a moderate chance of being successful in the vote in the Chamber of Deputies to-morroy, those in close touch anticipate that the Government will be short-lived. They consider that the prospects of a strong administration are more more remote than even three weeks ago, and regard France’s immediate future most pessimistically.

STRIKES SPREAD

95,000 WORKERS OUT

DISPUTE OXTER CONTRACTS Received April 12, 6.5 p.m. PARIS, April 11. Thirty-five thousand workers at the Renault factory have joined the stay-in strikers, who now aggregate 95,000 at 35 factories. Further extension of the strike is feared, the leaders of the Metal Workers’ Union having ordered non-strikers to demand an immediate settlement regarding the renewal of collective contracts, which the employers are resisting. The increase in the number of stayin strikes has brought to a standstill the armament programme, thus adding to the Government’s problems. Forty factories are idle, with an aggregate of 102,000 employees. M. Daladier is seeking unrestricted powers to deal with the economic and financial situation in the next three months, but judging by the Senate’s attitude the Bill is unlikely to pass.

CABINET DISCUSSION READY FOR DRASTIC ACTION Received April 12, 6.15 p.m. LONDON, April 11. The adjourned French emergency Cabinet meeting discussed the extension of the stay-in strikes. The Daily Telegraph’s Paris correspondent says Cabinet is prepared to resort to drastic measures if it is unable to settle them by negotiation.

GOVERNMENT’S FATE

ABILITY TO END STRIKES. Received April 12, 11.50 p.m. PARIS, April 12. It became evident overnight that the Government's life depends on M. Daladier's ability rapidly to end the strikes now involving r.early a quarter of a million people. The political background of the strikes is showing more clearly since the Senate threw out M. Blum’s Finance Bill, the union leaders not hiding the fact that their policy is aimed to produce political rather than industrial reforms.