More Industrial Trouble In France
Eeceived Friday, 7.40 p.in. LONDON, Oet. 1. Sixty-two per cent. of the miners in the Northern France coalfields voted in favour of a strike on Monday, says the Daily Telegraph's Paris corerspondr ent. The stVike is being planned by the Conununist-controHed . C.U.T. in test against Government decrees niaking eeonomy euts in surfaee personnel ahd introdueing penalties for unjustified absenteeism. They claim that the strike will paralyse the entire French coal industry. The Minister of Industry and Commerce (M. Lacoste) on Thursday night broadcast an appeal to tlie miners not to strike, saying that a stoppage wouJd be in opposition to tlxe measures whieli had been asked fur by public opinion. The decrees against absenteeism, he added, were aimed at parasites among the miners who threatened to discredit the nationalised industry. The British ■ Cnited Press's Paris correspondent says gas and electricity vvorkers staged a four-hour, strike iu protest against the Government orcler to c.ut down staff in the industry by ouetenth. Union officials said they would call au indefinite strike if the order was not caneelled.
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 October 1948, Page 6
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