De Gaulle Plans Production Boost

Press, Volume C, Issue 29509, 10 May 1961, Page 15

De Gaulle Plans Production Boost

(N.Z. Press Association-—-Copy rig >il t PARIS, May 9. French trade union leaders have adopted a wait-and-see attitude towards President de Gaulle’s plan for a big effort to increase production and raise living standards.

They are waiting for more details of the plan, mentioned in President de Gaulle's radio and television • speech last night, the British United Press, reports. The Socialist Labour Federation took a similar stand. The second appeal in President de Gaulle’s address —calling on Europeans in Algeria to give up their “myths and absurd agitations” and help build an independent Algerian Republic—was received with hostility in Algiers and Oran. A noisy demonstration of 300 Europeans in Algiers was dispersed only when police fired shots in the air. Two plastic bombs exploded in different parts of Algiers and four in Oran. There were no reports of injuries. President de Gaulle urged a “constructive association between France and Algeria” and made a special appeal to Europeans in the North African territory to join in working for such a solution The speech showed no change in the French attitude towards peace negotiations with the insurgents, and he declined to acknowledge the "Algerian Provisional Government” in Tunis as Lhe only qualified spokesman of the Algerian Moslems. Reuter said. He again spoke of the “various tendencies,” although he made particular reference to the "leaders of the rebels” and warned that if the talks with the insurgents—at Evian, in the French Alps—failed to produce any agreement. France would press ahead with building a "New Algeria" without them. Algeria would have self-

determination “which will finally decide everything, even if no agreement was reached on association or on ways of organising a free vote of the Algerian people." President de Gaulle said. Earlier, leaflets purporting to be a proclamation by General Raoul Salan —one of the two leaders of the revolt still in hiding—were circulated in Paris saying: “We are going to f ght.”