STRIKE PLAYS INTO HANDS OF SMUGGLERS
Received Sundav, 7.80 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 22. Smugglers yesterday inade fortune> in France beeause there was no* one to hinder them as the result of a Customs oflieials' strike. The Sunday Express' Paris correspondent reports that smug glers poured aeross the French frontiers into Belgium, Switzerland, Ltalv and Spain and brought. back food, wine and ■•lothes whieh eannot be jiought in France, and sold them to the highest bidder. Tobaeeo alone worth £10, OOJ was brought in from Belgium. The Strikiug Customs oflieials stood smoking on France 'a frontiers wateh ing house wivos bai'gaining for. smuggled goods. . iV \9 • '^he •. stri ke is eosting t-he :Fre,tieh. Ti^sua'y. £100,000 dailv. ' ,-Rbutdr 'S^afi's c|)byhspon.deiif says i h» . Frenclt1' policgmen 's' trade union had nnnouneed tliat it is intended on S^p ; tember 25 to join the st rikers and lias; alreadv appealed to membeis liot to aet' is strike breakers. J Bank and stoek exehange em])lovees' of North France, have deeidod to strike tomorrow for higher wages. The general strike sit nation is caosing the Government grave anxiety. One hundred thoosand eivil servants employed by the French Trcasury went on strike in support of 11 demand for teinporary pav increases of upwards of £14, pending a general revision ot -alaries.
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 September 1946, Page 5
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