FRENCH IN RUHR.
DEMAND OATH OF ALLEGIANCE.
NEW SITUATION CREATED, v
STAND BY GERMAN WORKERS.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. Received October 4, 11.5 a.m. LONDON, October 3. The Times' Essen correspondent says that French insistence that German railwaymen in Ruhr take the oath of loyalty to the Franco-Belgian Government has created'an entitrely new situation. The Trade Unionists generally regard it as equivalent to breaking the oaths of loyalty to Germany. The organisation of the railways is the first task which the French undertaking. The French have notified the employees that the reinstatement of workmen will not be general. Deportees will be excluded and young men will get the preference.
The workers of Ruhr generally express a determination to continue their resistance and to refuse to accept Berlin's dictation. "Resistance is our own idea" they say, adding that they have no intention to co-operate with the French until prisoners are released and deporters restored.
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Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15357, 4 October 1923, Page 5
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