FRENCH STRIKES.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19911, 13 June 1936, Page 8

FRENCH STRIKES.

SITUATION IMPROVED. l l _ l SOME W‘OHKERS RESUME. i i United Press Assn—Elem Tel. Copyright. (Received June 13. 3.15 pm.) ; PARIS, June 12. l The Government declares the situa- ‘ tion has improved. . The strike in the hotels and ream taurants has been satisfactorily settled. The building trade strikers have been forbidden to parade and no as-‘ eemblies are' permitted. A race meeting at St. Cloud has been cancelled owing to the track workers striking without awaiting the authorities‘ reply to their demands. . NO RESPONSIBILITY. MUNICIPAL COUNCIL‘S DECISION. STRIKE AT AN ASYLUM. Unite... Preal Assn—linen. TM Copyright (Received June 13. 3.15 pm.) PARIS, June 12. The Municipal Council has resolved to decline all responsibility for any damage by strikers, the illegality of which the Government recognised, but has not attempted to condemn. The Ministry of Labour has announced the termination of strikes in the cabinetmaking. butchering, dressmaking. slop clothing. leather bag, and trunk triuies, while metallurgical workers. builders. carpenters and lock—smiths are expected to resume on .\lon‘ ~day. AMIENS, June 12. ‘The undertakers‘ employees have Itruck. rendering funerals Impossible. The \varders in a lunatic asylum have struck and left the director tingle-handed. ' The inmates of a factory deliberately set it on ilre, but it was cxtinsuishei by firemen. _.._— l l TINSI SITUATION. l —— SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS. } l ' l {AUTHORITIES TAKE PRECAUTIONS. United Press Assn—Else. Tel. Copyright.l (Received June 13. 3.15 pm.) PAills. June 12. The most important individual settlement was the signature or a collective contract at the Ministry of 'the interior by the employers and em—ployees in the metallurgical industry. A significant development was the occupation of all the Paris town halls by armed mobile guards. \vho. how< ever. are genderxncrie not soldiers. This action rcaultcd [mm the confer—ence betvvccn .\l..\i. Binni and Salengro. and Police l’i'et‘cct Lu. Liercn, which determined .upon the preservation of order at all costs. .\i. Bluni dcclured in the Chamber of Deputies that the. Government is dett‘l‘itllllt‘d to enforce public order in view of the impression that suspicious evlcrnul influences. are “pointing, re,‘ auitlm: in incrcascil ncnuusnrss and a tendency towards panic. The guarding of Chevy strategic point in the «:in dcmuiislmtx's the Government‘s anxiety to prcicnt riot—ins. Busters and mobile guards are on duty at the .\lOlitil'tdl‘ll'D Mild lJi'uuot cressroads l'C-lll)’ in sound [he tiring flial'li'l—[ldlllv‘l}‘ three \mi'uuix liiastsfi the neglm'l nl' “hi-3h by rrimds “'1” produce a tlml lilasl. alter \vhich the guards are legally entitled to tire. Similar tense. conditions premil in all the great industrial tll‘t‘its. .\lany members oi" the firms do You peminhulated the streets on tllt‘ pretence or preserving order. but the police rciusctl their old, and ari‘rstcii many. The Uuursc is steady.