COAL MINERS TO STRIKE
(N.Z.P.A.-
— Reuter,
French Communists Stirring Up More Trouble
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Reeeived Monday, 9.25 a.m. PARIS, Oct. 3. The Communist-controlled General Confederation of Labour announced that a general strike of niost of France's 350,000 coal miners starts tomorrow morning. The announcement came as a reply to a proposal from the non-Com-munist s Christian Mineworkers' Federatibn that the strike should be limited to 48 hours. The strike is planned in protest against the Government decrees making economy cuts in surface personnel and introducing penalties for unjustified absenteeism. They claim that the strike will paral'yse the entire French coal indtlstry. One-day protest strikes by workers in the nationalised p^stal, telegraph and telephone services, Paris water workers and several branches of the civil service are also planned. The British United Press correspondent in Paris says that gas and electricity workers held a fourhour strike in protest against a Government order -to cut down staff in the industry by one-tenth. Union ofRcials said they would call a deflnite strike if the order was not cancelled.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 October 1948, Page 5
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173COAL MINERS TO STRIKE Chronicle (Levin), 4 October 1948, Page 5
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