LABOUR UPHEAVAL IN FRANCE
350,000 STRIKERS IN PARIS REGION
COST OF LIVING THE MAIN . ...CAUSE. ' By Aesqolatlon-Ooprright. . -(fiee. Juno '13, 7.10 p.m.) ■'•• . "■■'"'■'. . 'I- Paris, June L The ..Labour, upheaval .in :Pranco isbased mainly oii' the clearness of living.Three hundred.and. (iffy thousand wort' ers- have, struck,in-, the- Paris region, parnlyeipg. the-.'traffic :.■ The men claim a minimum of 450 francs monthly, with a pension at the age of fifty-five.' ■ Fifteen thousand, nreena I workers at Pureanx, and also tile miners in-P/isdo Calais, have struck!' Demagogic orators are urging the men to extend the agitation, to political; questions, to protest against'- diplomatic or military intervention in.'JiussJa.and- Hungary, and to dema'nd immcdiate.demobilisation. .''
M. ..Cafhin,- Socialist Deputy, declares that underlying the financial causes of. tho strike is tho determination of Labour to secure a. definite share in the management of tho great business interests of the country. Further, that the French bourgeoisie hart been combating" the working classes. Tho peasant republics were .striving for existence in Europe,' l)iit organised Labour meant to secure . the. direction of the homo and foreign affairs of France,—Aus.-N.Z. Cable- Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 223, 14 June 1919, Page 9
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180LABOUR UPHEAVAL IN FRANCE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 223, 14 June 1919, Page 9
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