FRENCH SENSATION.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18875, 20 February 1933, Page 7

FRENCH SENSATION.

TAXATION RESISTED.

DEMONSTRATION IN PARIS.

PREMIER’S APPEAL TO NATION.

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PARIS, Feb. 19

“I appeal to the country to be calm, reasonable and disciplined,” said M. Daladier, the Premier In the Senate, when condemning ttie shopkeepers for closing yesterday when the civil servants were threatening to strike as a protest against the Government’s economies and taxation. He added: “Neither the Government nor Parliament intends to deliberate under the menaces of these demonstrations. It Is unnecessary for the Government to prove the Interest we take in all classes of citizens. The strike of the civil servants, who have contracts with the State is inadinissable. The financial position Is less blaolc than it is painted, and the moral crisis is really graver than the material."

Meanwhile civil servants throughout the country are determined to demonstrate to-morrow against the 5 and 10 per cent cuts. Government offices will cease work for one hour, hoard schools for half an hour, and trams, buses and railways for 10 minutes.

It is declared that these are only preludes to more drastic methods. Ex-servicemen are organising a march through the Parisian streets. Business men in Marseilles following a monster meeting decided finally to warn the Government of their resolution to oppose by every means _ in their power any further taxation. Delegates of the shopkeepers passed a resolution to oppose by every means any further taxation, and delegates of shopkeepers and manufacturers throughout the south supported this resolution.